The public health official who’s lashed his legitimacy to Thailand’s embrace of legal weed said on its two-month anniversary that he doesn’t believe it has created a new generation of smokers.
Responding to fresh attacks on his signature policy initiative, Anutin Charnvirakul today again stressed cannabis’ medical benefits and asserted without evidence that it had not led to higher rates of smoking.
“As of today, cannabis has been legal for two months. The numbers show that legalization doesn’t lead to an increase in smokers. In contrast, it has made possible for a large number of people to have access to the medicinal uses of cannabis on their own.”
Anutin’s comments, in which he repeated that legislation was on the way to introduce regulations that would end the current free-for-all, came after members of the opposition Pheu Thai Party held a…
