Here’s how to get a license to sell weed in Bangkok

Ever since weed was made legal, a green rush has exploded across the realm as dreamers set out to build their kush empires.

New dispensaries have spread as quickly as mounting concerns and public backlash have raised concern of a crackdown on unfettered commerce, including a recent and short-lived threat to arrest those without licenses that didn’t exist. 

Except now they do. Sort of. While no law or regulation yet requires sellers to hold a license – and it is unclear if they ever will – the Public Health Ministry has begun supplying provisional licenses to those who want to play it safe.

Here’s where to buy cannabis right now in Bangkok (Weed Map)

So how do you get one of these elusive licenses? 

To find the answer, I set out to ministry headquarters in northwest metro Bangkok with some friends eager to register their weed-selling…