Myanmar businesses have been setting up shop in Thailand since it decriminalised cannabis last year, while back in Myanmar, a pioneering dispensary has opened in an area controlled by the armed resistance.
By FRONTIER
Backpackers browsing the vicinity of Bangkok’s Khao San Road since last year will have noticed a new addition to the tourist entertainment hub. Where once cannabis could only be sought through whispered deals with street-side dealers, the drug can now be bought and enjoyed at dozens of brick-and-mortar dispensaries and recreation rooms. But there is one shop that stands apart for marijuana connoisseurs from Myanmar: the Lollipop Farm Cannabis Dispensary.
Its walls hung with paintings of the ruined temples of Bagan and traditional Myanmar dancers, the shop’s ambience has an unmistakable flavour – established in February this year, this is the first…
