Another week brings more people challenging the legalization of weed in Thailand.Doctors and pharmacists have joined the chorus of people demanding re-criminalization.However the Thai Marijuana Act Consideration Committee (say that five times fast) has pretty much rejected demands to stop cannabis sales.However, someone in the health ministry apparently thought they were in charge and sent an order to the head of the police asking them to arrest anybody who is selling marijuana without a license, even though there was no way to apply for a license (the government has since published an application form).Dispensaries scrambled to make sense of what was going on and even the Thai police said they had no idea what to make of the order to arrest dispensary owners.Eventually someone higher up than the person that issued the order rescinded the order.That was our little piece of drama for this week.In other news, the r/CannabisThailand community has spoken and 33.7% of you voted that you prefer to buy cannabis via online dispensaries. That barely edged out physical dispensaries which received 31.3% of the vote.This week we're asking about your favorite way to consume cannabis. You have until Wednesday to vote.Speaking of dispensaries, we've been adding a lot of new dispensaries to the wiki so be sure to check out all of the new spots.That's it for this week.u/CannabisThilandMod
r/CannabisThailand Newsletter - Issue #04
Another week brings more people challenging the legalization of weed in Thailand.Doctors and pharmacists have joined the chorus of people demanding re-criminalization.However the Thai Marijuana Act Consideration Committee (say that five times fast) has pretty much rejected demands to stop cannabis sales.However, someone in the health ministry apparently thought they were in charge and sent an order to the head of the police asking them to arrest anybody who is selling marijuana without a license, even though there was no way to apply for a license (the government has since published an application form).Dispensaries scrambled to make sense of what was going on and even the Thai police said they had no idea what to make of the order to arrest dispensary owners.Eventually someone higher up than the person that issued the order rescinded the order.That was our little piece of drama for this week.In other news, the r/CannabisThailand community has spoken and 33.7% of you voted that you prefer to buy cannabis via online dispensaries. That barely edged out physical dispensaries which received 31.3% of the vote.This week we're asking about your favorite way to consume cannabis. You have until Wednesday to vote.Speaking of dispensaries, we've been adding a lot of new dispensaries to the wiki so be sure to check out all of the new spots.That's it for this week.u/CannabisThilandMod