The purpose of the protest campaign before the Ministry of Health on the outskirts for a long time is the demand for “proper regulation” instead of lowering the cannabis to a forbidden substance, says an activist of Chokwan -Chopak Taz.
“People from the entire cannabis industry gathered together to work on the complex law of Cannabis,” said the most famous Thai artery to legalize Cannabis.
Cannabis was noted as hope for economics and tourism a few years ago
The industry is on the turning point: if cannabis was noted as economic and tourist hope several years ago, the planned recurrence as an illegal substance threatens the end of tens of thousands of small enterprises and local manufacturers.
Critics see monopolization and black market in front
The new rules provide that only specially trained doctors and traditional healers can produce cannabis recipes for medical purposes, which can be repaired only by trained medical staff in Cannabis stores.
Critics are afraid of monopolization in state structures to control marijuana cultivation with the help of a medical active co -ledge (CBD) instead of psychoactive TGK.
“This excludes 99 percent of 11,000 farms at present,” says Chokwan, adding: “Then about 100 farms will have a monopoly. This will open the door and the black gate market. ”
From the moment of legalization in 2022, Plantation and Kannabis stores have been shot dead like mushrooms in the kingdom of Southeast Asia. In Chiang alone, the second largest metropolitan area of the country with more than one million inhabitants, the number of Ganja stores is estimated at more than 800.
Cannabis industry supports reasonable rules
They vary from a small stand to chic shops with large stores, egregious advertising and how jewelry represent the flowers of cannabis of a wide range of effects. In this industry, there is hardly anyone, who is not intended to ensure the quality and protection of consumers for legal regulation.
Dup from Myanmar, who sells cannabis in one of the chic stores in Chiang Mais-Tap-Straly, says: “We advise customers. We ask if you have experience working with cannabis or first consumers. Then we are trying to find out what you expect: to relax or arrange a party? ” So can we recommend the appropriate products. “
But not every Cannabis dealer offers this advisory service, and some will also simply sell fabric to children and youth, Dape says.
He is angry with politicians who abused cannabis as a tool for their power games. “Instead of releasing it only for private consumption by decree, they would prefer to create the conditions for the legal framework for consumption, growing and sales,” says 24-year-old.
The debates were “led to morality” with links “
Propaganda against cannabis for a long time was in full swing. All kinds of experts warn of the growth of crime, the threat of health of young people, lead a long -reasonable argument about Cannabis as a drug in this area, doubting the advantages of legalization for Thailand, paralyzing the economy and its tourism, but not proving their fears with the help of data and facts.
“All the debate led to morality more and more,” the Chokwan complains.
In protest against the alleged danger of the country’s sovereignty suspended Prime Minister Paetongthan Blue, the Bhumjathei party left the government coalition two weeks ago. In the election campaign of 2023, Bhumjithai, whose chairman was then the Minister of Health, had only one topic: the legalization of Cannabis.
The Thai Pfeu Party from Paetongtarn, on the other hand, was rather against it, but did not want the coalition with Bhumjaithai to fail on the issue of cannabis. Dape now sees his work in danger. “We already see that the number of customers is falling. The boss, who has three stores, is already trying his best to pay us. ”
Without the work of Dape may lose the right to live in Thailand. “In Myanmar there is a risk that I will be transferred to military service,” he says. Therefore, the return can not be a question for him. But in Thailand, a young man can soon threaten the same fate as cannabis: illegality.
