Chuwit leans into weed crusade, ignores dean’s debate challenge

A university dean’s challenge to a public debate about weed liberalization with tycoon Chuwit Kamolvisit has so far met no response.

Chuwit, a maverick former lawmaker who has recently taken a staunchly anti-cannabis stance, has not commented on the challenge issued by Panthep Puapongpan of Rangsit University, who himself is a strong advocate of weed’s decriminalization.

Panthep, the 52-year-old dean of the Institute of Medicine and a supporter of the political party behind last year’s back door decriminalization, said Chuwit’s recent theatrics expressing angry opposition to the cannabis policy have been one-sided and ignorant of the benefits.

“For the public interest in learning more about marijuana, I invite Chuvit Kamolvisit to debate with me on equal sides of the public until doubts are gone,” he wrote on social media. “This is so we can educate…