Burning issue: Weed to remain legal, easily available under Thailand’s Cannabis Act

Weed smokers were exhaling smoky sighs of relief on word that pending regulations, at least in their current form, pose no threat to the new stoner status quo.

Several advocates said today that they saw nothing to fear in the forthcoming Cannabis Act’s regulations, which are mostly aimed at production rather than consumption or sale. Notably absent from the provisions disclosed so far was any attempt to recriminalize recreational smoking or shut down the budding industry that’s proliferated since legalization. 

“Nothing has changed,” said Arun Avery of the pro-marijuana Highland Network of the proposed regulations. “What you see now is exactly it.” 

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Ever since the legislation was taken up amid a public backlash to the new legal free-for-all, fears have spread that the authorities…