Thai FDA: Marijuana still in list of narcotic drugs

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Thai FDA: Marijuana still in list of narcotic drugs

 

BANGKOK, 5 September 2016 (NNT) - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirms it has not withdrawn marijuana from the list of narcotic drugs, Category 5. It has neither been categorized as herb or controlled drug for cancer treatment. 

FDA Secretary-General M.D. Boonchai Sombunsuk said marijuana was still in the list of narcotic drugs, Category 5, according to the Narcotics Act, B.E. 2522. The law prohibited the production, sale, import, export and possession of narcotic drugs in the list except that the Minister of Public Health shall authorize it, said the secretary-general. 

The FDA had neither approved the use of marijuana nor registered drugs based on marijuana since there was not sufficient research confirming that marijuana could treat cancer, said the FDA chief. 

M.D. Boonchai added that there were some countries allowing medical marijuana but the use of the plant to treat diseases was still being researched.

 

-- nnt 2016-09-05

[JustNo]

Funny how it is on the 'narcotics' list when in fact a narcotic by true definition is a drug from the opiate family.. Oh and amazing work Thailand, more bullcrap reports that you will do this or do that, only to retract mere days later. Nothing here will change anytime soon smh 

 

[rkidlad]

It's painful how slow 'experts' in a particular field are. Same as in the US. 

 

 

[frozin1]

Other than a few in the wing-nut fringe no one would claim that MJ 'treats' cancer. It is undoubtedly helpful in managing the side-effects of other treatments such as chemotherapy. In the US States that have approved both medical and recreational use of this substance  (Oregon, Alaska, and Washington) society has not exactly fallen into anarchy. These decisions are political and not based in medical science. 

[apalink_thailand]

What a shame. I have heard that even the Royal Projects had issues with the Police on a plan to grow hemp up north because the plants could be confused with cannabis and the police would not be able to tell the difference. 

[Canuk23]

28 minutes ago, apalink_thailand said:

What a shame. I have heard that even the Royal Projects had issues with the Police on a plan to grow hemp up north because the plants could be confused with cannabis and the police would not be able to tell the difference. 

 

Yes that's a real shame, here is another plant that could be used as food and building houses called Hempcrete witch is 50 times more efficient than regular concrete. it can also make rope, clothes, food, paper, textiles, plastics, insulation and bio fuel.

 

Amazing plant that grows faster than most plants but grown mainly in the Northern hemisphere.

 

 

[mankondang]

4 hours ago, JustNo said:

Funny how it is on the 'narcotics' list when in fact a narcotic by true definition is a drug from the opiate family.. Oh and amazing work Thailand, more bullcrap reports that you will do this or do that, only to retract mere days later. Nothing here will change anytime soon smh 

 

 

A "narcotic"  is a drug that makes a person sleepy or unconscious. It does not need to belong to the opiate family to do this.

[Guitar God]

2 hours ago, frozin1 said:

Other than a few in the wing-nut fringe no one would claim that MJ 'treats' cancer. It is undoubtedly helpful in managing the side-effects of other treatments such as chemotherapy. In the US States that have approved both medical and recreational use of this substance  (Oregon, Alaska, and Washington) society has not exactly fallen into anarchy. These decisions are political and not based in medical science. 

There are many studies showing than Cannabis kills cancer cells in vivo. 

 

Just google 'Cannabis kills cancer cells" or "Cannabis cures cancer".

 

There are numerous videos showing squamous cell carcinoma disappearing within a month of treatment with topical application of RSO. 

 

One friend, Tommy Chong the actor/comedian reduced his psa from the mid teens to normal and cured his prostate cancer. 

 

Todd MacCormick has lived 40 years past his terminal prognosis by using Cannabis. 

 

The main effects of legalizing medical cannabis are reduced opiate fatalities and decrease in opiate prescriptions filled. 

[MisterTee]

3 hours ago, frozin1 said:

Other than a few in the wing-nut fringe no one would claim that MJ 'treats' cancer. It is undoubtedly helpful in managing the side-effects of other treatments such as chemotherapy. In the US States that have approved both medical and recreational use of this substance  (Oregon, Alaska, and Washington) society has not exactly fallen into anarchy. These decisions are political and not based in medical science. 

Agreed.

Oregon, Alaska, and Washington have not fallen into anarchy so far.

When I first came to Thailand in the late 1970s, ganja was almost as easy to buy as beer.

A lot has changed since then, but I really miss those days.

[sirmud63]

On 9/5/2016 at 8:34 AM, rkidlad said:

It's painful how slow 'experts' in a particular field are. Same as in the US. 

 

 

"experts".  X ,is an unknowen quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure. 

[metisdead]

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[nisakiman]

On 05/09/2016 at 9:35 AM, MisterTee said:

When I first came to Thailand in the late 1970s, ganja was almost as easy to buy as beer.

A lot has changed since then, but I really miss those days.

 

Yes, when I was first in Thailand in 1971, I was invited to share a bong almost everywhere I went, both in the cities and in the country. I smoked it with both hi-so and lo-so, there were no social boundaries - it was universal, cheap, readily available and top quality. And because it was both good and cheap, people weren't interested in opiates or amphetamines. Why should they be?

 

There was no 'yaba' problem then. And there wouldn't be a 'yaba' problem today, either, if they had allowed the situation with grass to continue as it was then.

 

The stupidity of people with power knows no bounds.

[NCC1701A]

I am on vacation in Colorado and weed is legal and for sale everywhere you go.

The state economy is booming from marijuana sales.

[Wilsonandson]

21 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

I am on vacation in Colorado and weed is legal and for sale everywhere you go.

The state economy is booming from marijuana sales.

Yes, if only it was legal here. Sick to death of eating cowpat everyday, but if I had marijuana, cowpat would taste delicious everytime. Heck, I could even start eating Isaan food like my wife. The local market would be like a candy store. "A bag of mud, fried grasshoppers and half a rat, please".

[DiamondKing]

On 9/5/2016 at 10:23 AM, frozin1 said:

Other than a few in the wing-nut fringe no one would claim that MJ 'treats' cancer. It is undoubtedly helpful in managing the side-effects of other treatments such as chemotherapy. In the US States that have approved both medical and recreational use of this substance  (Oregon, Alaska, and Washington) society has not exactly fallen into anarchy. These decisions are political and not based in medical science. 

 

And you obviously have done no research on the matter and are talking out your butthole 

[Psimbo]

On 9/5/2016 at 8:17 AM, JustNo said:

Funny how it is on the 'narcotics' list when in fact a narcotic by true definition is a drug from the opiate family.. Oh and amazing work Thailand, more bullcrap reports that you will do this or do that, only to retract mere days later. Nothing here will change anytime soon smh 

 

Yep, its not like other gov'ts consider it illegal is it. Just bash Thailand.

[JustNo]

11 hours ago, Psimbo said:

Yep, its not like other gov'ts consider it illegal is it. Just bash Thailand.

That wasn't really my point, was it. My point was that they made this huge announcement that quote 'by the end of the year cannabis will be decriminalised for medical use' and then in a matter of days totally retract on that statement. Show me another country that has made such a bold announcement and then retracted faster than a peeing eskimo 

Edited September 12, 2016 by JustNo

[Shawn0000]

18 hours ago, nisakiman said:

 

Yes, when I was first in Thailand in 1971, I was invited to share a bong almost everywhere I went, both in the cities and in the country. I smoked it with both hi-so and lo-so, there were no social boundaries - it was universal, cheap, readily available and top quality. And because it was both good and cheap, people weren't interested in opiates or amphetamines. Why should they be?

 

There was no 'yaba' problem then. And there wouldn't be a 'yaba' problem today, either, if they had allowed the situation with grass to continue as it was then.

 

The stupidity of people with power knows no bounds.

 

There was no yaba problem in 1971?  Just a year after it was made illegal meaning you could no longer buy it at every petrol station in the country, it just disappeared?  That is hard to believe.  As for Heroin, use peaked in the late 60's and early 70's and only really gave way to a new rise of yaba in the mid 90's when they cracked down on heroin production in Myanmar.  Of course cannabis use only became widespread in Thailand with the arrival of US troops, until then it was confined to a few places where it had been used traditionally for centuries, the use of other drugs being completely unrelated to that short lived cannabis fad.

 

[Rancid]

So why is pot illegal in the first place? Study the history of who was behind criminalizing drugs, this current story may give a hint.

 

According to US News:

Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot Legalization.

 

What is Fentanyl? It has become one of the US most dangerous prescription drugs, it is 50 times stronger than heroin and has been linked to growing numbers of deaths in the United States.

Q. Now consider why would this company that makes very profitable legal addictive drugs wants to stop people growing cheap pot?

A. Money.

[JustNo]

3 minutes ago, Rancid said:

So why is pot illegal in the first place? Study the history of who was behind criminalizing drugs, this current story may give a hint.

 

According to US News:

Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot Legalization.

 

What is Fentanyl? It has become one of the US most dangerous prescription drugs, it is 50 times stronger than heroin and has been linked to growing numbers of deaths in the United States.

Q. Now consider why would this company that makes very profitable legal addictive drugs wants to stop people growing cheap pot?

A. Money.

Someone is awake thankfully!! 

There are even a few deeper reasons why certain drugs / substances are illegal. For example, LSD, mushrooms and DMT have very minor or small negative health side effects if at all, yet they are in the same classing as heroin. One reason for this is because these substances make people think, they create a huge amount of awareness as you observe life from different perspectives. Governments do not want their people to have ideas above their stations, they want them to be dumbed down enough so that they can work but do not get any ideas to revolt or whatever. 

When I first took acid I was sitting on a hilltop with a million epiphanies slamming into my face a minute, and one of them was something like 'of course this is highly illegal, if more people took this they would realise just how silly and artificial society is, how we are programmed and conditioned from day 1 to be a specific way' - For a government it is just fine to let everyone dumb their mind with alcohol and slowly intoxicate their liver, for them that is profitable and works for their system of control. 

[Sir Bogdiver]

Pot was first made illegal in the US.  It is actually the only drug law that passed congress against the advice of the AMA (American Medical Association).

The driving force against pot was the cotton lobby which saw hemp as a serious competitor and used the halogenic effect to get rid of a competing product.  In 1936  they produced a movie called Reefer Madness which purported to show the dangers and addiction of cannabis, showing teenagers turning into cannabis junkies willing to do anything to obtain the drug.

This campaign was successful, culminating into the Anslinger act of 1937

[JustNo]

4 hours ago, Sir Bogdiver said:

Pot was first made illegal in the US.  It is actually the only drug law that passed congress against the advice of the AMA (American Medical Association).

The driving force against pot was the cotton lobby which saw hemp as a serious competitor and used the halogenic effect to get rid of a competing product.  In 1936  they produced a movie called Reefer Madness which purported to show the dangers and addiction of cannabis, showing teenagers turning into cannabis junkies willing to do anything to obtain the drug.

This campaign was successful, culminating into the Anslinger act of 1937

At that time wasn't there also a business tycoon in the US who owned either a paper company or newspaper company, and he helped fund this campaign as he was worried that hemp would ruin his business? 

The war on drugs is a crooked affair, and many people still think governments give a damn about your health. To an extent they do, but only because they want a healthy work-force; the governments you will find are at the heart of many of the drug running anyway, especially the US and South American governments. There is evidence against the CIA showing they helped control and do control the flow of crack cocaine and heroin. Control control control 

[nisakiman]

2 hours ago, JustNo said:

At that time wasn't there also a business tycoon in the US who owned either a paper company or newspaper company, and he helped fund this campaign as he was worried that hemp would ruin his business? 

The war on drugs is a crooked affair, and many people still think governments give a damn about your health. To an extent they do, but only because they want a healthy work-force; the governments you will find are at the heart of many of the drug running anyway, especially the US and South American governments. There is evidence against the CIA showing they helped control and do control the flow of crack cocaine and heroin. Control control control 

 

" William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather stood to lose billions because of hemp.

In 1937, DuPont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. DuPont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of DuPont's business.
 The Conspiracy Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of America. "

 

http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_marijuana_illegal

 

There is in fact a bit more to it than that, but the quote above is accurate enough for all intents and purposes.