420 now! Hopes high Thailand will fully legalize weed today

Smoking weed all day may soon be a legal reality as Thailand’s renewed push to decriminalize cannabis reaches a blazing climax today.

The Ministry of Public Health’s narcotics division will decide this afternoon whether to fully decriminalize cannabis and make all parts of the plant – including those with psychoactive compounds – legal for personal use. 

Also expected are decisions on where people would be able to smoke up recreationally in designated “sandbox” areas. Although no clear guidelines or proposed regulations have been made public yet, the authorities are expected to determine age limits and other conditions.

The only exception made clear so far is that cannabis the THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) level of extracts produced from domestically grown weed will not be allowed to exceed 0.2%.

The changes, which Public Health Deputy Secretary…