Government Cannabis Policy to Focus on Health and Economy

[webfact]

    
BANGKOK (NNT) - The government’s cannabis policy aims to promote health and economic development, as clarified by the Minister of Interior, rather than unregulated recreational use. The new interior minister said he was ready to explain in detail his decentralization policy, which has faced skepticism from critics.

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul elaborated on the government’s policy concerning cannabis as a means of promoting health and economic growth, stressing that it was not to encourage unregulated recreational use.

 

Anutin, leader of the Bhumjaithai Party who served as public health minister in the previous administration, said his party had in the previous parliamentary session submitted a bill on cannabis regulation that was dismissed.

 

He said the Bhumjaithai Party will resubmit the bill to the current parliament in order to promote cannabis for its medical, health and economic benefits.

 

Minister Anutin said the discourse surrounding cannabis legalization has become muddied with debates over unregulated usage. He has therefore asked all sides to stop spreading this misconception.

 

The government’s policy under the Ministry of Interior is reintroducing the CEO Governor concept for provincial administration. The Interior Minister said this working concept, which positions provincial governors as the CEO of each province, would improve the agility of local administrations and public services.

 

This policy has however received criticism from the Move Forward Party, which views the policy as a move towards centralization rather than decentralization. The interior minister said he was willing to elaborate on the policy to clear up any misunderstandings.

 

by Paul Rujopakarn

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230912115614683

 

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[2baht]

Well, let's roll another number for the road! 

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

The government’s cannabis policy aims to promote health and economic development, as clarified by the Minister of Interior, rather than unregulated recreational use.

Strange how I see more unregulated recreational use than medical use?

[wombat]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

economic benefits

so nothing will change from the way it is now...imo its working well...money number 1

[wombat]

21 hours ago, 2baht said:

Well, let's roll another number for the road! 

roll me another one just like the other one

[Jumbo1968]

Judging by the number of outlets there must be a lot sick people who require cannabis for health purposes.

[Jingthing]

I have no idea what they're talking about.

I recently visited a "Cannabis Health Festival" at Central Festival Mall Pattaya.

It was quite large and I visited many booths to look at the products for sale.

Not one vendor had a doctor on site.

Not one vendor asked me what health ailment I was seeking help with.

Talking to the vendors "health" wasn't mentioned even once. One nice clearly baked guy did suggest his favorite strain with advertised effects -- MAKE HAPPY.

Come on man. 

This is a farce.

Like "illegal" prostitution.

Not complaining but all this posing is ridiculous.

BTW -- I do find a great health benefit from cannabis. Almost total relief from chronic lower back pain. I would be very bummed out if they recriminalize cannabis here.

Edited September 13, 2023 by Jingthing

[Jingthing]

11 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Judging by the number of outlets there must be a lot sick people who require cannabis for health purposes.

The truth is it's almost impossible to separate the recreational part from the health part unless you're only using CBD and only CBD isn't good enough for many health purposes.

[NextG]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Strange how I see more unregulated recreational use than medical use?

How would you know? Do you diagnose each person?

[bamnutsak]

The new Minister of Health, Cholnan Srikaew MD (PTP) seems woefully out of touch...

 

He assured that cannabis will not be reclassified as a narcotic under Category 5 of the country’s controlled drug list, noting that cannabis with a THC content of more than 0.2% by weight is already regarded as a controlled narcotic.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/public-ministry-to-set-up-national-health-security-board/

 

 

Many in this new government will have to work very hard get out of the bottom quartile.

 

 

I think BJT, as part of the coalition, will simply re-introduce the Cannabis Control Act in Parliament. It overwhelmingly passed the first reading last year. This essentially enables a Cannabis Control Board to manage all aspects of Cannabis  production, sales/marketing, use.

 

DTAM (Traditional Medicine) within the MoPH will sit on that board and be responsible for Medical Cannabis solutions.

 

Not much will change re: normalized personal use.

 

 

[Jumbo1968]

36 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

The new Minister of Health, Cholnan Srikaew MD (PTP) seems woefully out of touch...

 

He assured that cannabis will not be reclassified as a narcotic under Category 5 of the country’s controlled drug list, noting that cannabis with a THC content of more than 0.2% by weight is already regarded as a controlled narcotic.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/public-ministry-to-set-up-national-health-security-board/

 

 

Many in this new government will have to work very hard get out of the bottom quartile.

 

 

I think BJT, as part of the coalition, will simply re-introduce the Cannabis Control Act in Parliament. It overwhelmingly passed the first reading last year. This essentially enables a Cannabis Control Board to manage all aspects of Cannabis  production, sales/marketing, use.

 

DTAM (Traditional Medicine) within the MoPH will sit on that board and be responsible for Medical Cannabis solutions.

 

Not much will change re: normalized personal use.

 

 

Nothing will change as Anutin was the Health minister who decriminalised cannabis and is now the Deputy Prime minster.

[bamnutsak]

50 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Nothing will change as Anutin was the Health minister who decriminalised cannabis and is now the Deputy Prime minster.

I think I said as much in my last sentence?

 

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

Not much will change re: normalized personal use.

 

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, NextG said:

How would you know? Do you diagnose each person?

No by seeing hundreds of outlets from street side vendors to street-side shops selling it..

also online products shipped to your door.

all with-out a doctor on the premises.

[NextG]

11 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

No by seeing hundreds of outlets from street side vendors to street-side shops selling it..

also online products shipped to your door.

all with-out a doctor on the premises.

So just an opinion without any basis in fact. Got it. 

[Jumbo1968]

26 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

I think I said as much in my last sentence?

 

 

Anutin is not the Health minister now, he is the minister of interior.

[Jumbo1968]

9 minutes ago, NextG said:

So just an opinion without any basis in fact. Got it. 

Everyone has a fight to an opinion do they not ?

[hotchilli]

13 minutes ago, NextG said:

So just an opinion without any basis in fact. Got it. 

Some blindness is curable... yours I don't think so.

[NextG]

2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Some blindness is curable... yours I don't think so.

I have a life and am good at minding my own business, curtain twitcher. 

[NextG]

6 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Everyone has a fight to an opinion do they not ?

A fight? Erm….

Yes, people can air their nonsense and have it swatted out of the air. 

[hotchilli]

2 minutes ago, NextG said:

I have a life and am good at minding my own business, curtain twitcher. 

Lol... 

[Jumbo1968]

17 minutes ago, NextG said:

A fight? Erm….

Yes, people can air their nonsense and have it swatted out of the air. 

Always a mister know it all on the forums, all they do is intimidate posters, can’t have much of a life.

[NextG]

1 hour ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Always a mister know it all on the forums, all they do is intimidate posters, can’t have much of a life.

Were you intimidated? ☺️ Diddums… how so?
It’s seems to me that you are the ‘keyboard warrior’ here… with your ‘personal’ attack. I post in good humour. 

[Jumbo1968]

1 hour ago, NextG said:

Were you intimidated? ☺️ Diddums… how so?
It’s seems to me that you are the ‘keyboard warrior’ here… with your ‘personal’ attack. I post in good humour. 

Ha ha your the keyboard warrior, I bet you were lurking around your keyboard and couldn’t wait to reply.

[NextG]

3 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Ha ha your the keyboard warrior, I bet you were lurking around your keyboard and couldn’t wait to reply.

I don’t have a keyboard ☺️
It seems that you do ???? 

[Jumbo1968]

23 minutes ago, NextG said:

I don’t have a keyboard ☺️
It seems that you do ???? 

Neither me, keypad then.