Nine months after weed was decriminalized, popular tourist destination Phuket will light up this weekend with a cannabis event where the best buds will win.
The Phuket Cannabis Cup will go down Saturday at a hotel on Kata Beach. Hosted by the Phuket Cannabis Association, the event will feature a joint rolling race, showcase of buds throughout Thailand, panel discussions, and more.
There will be a competition to identify the best weed strains in four categories: indoor hybrid, indoor sativa, indoor indica, and greenhouse strains. They will be judged by eight weed veterans and long-time advocates including Highland founder Rattapon “Guide” Sanrak, Lex de Groot from Royal Queen Seed and Aram “Uncle Dam” Limsakul, who earned the nickname “father of medical weed” for his decades-long advocacy work.
Uncle Dam is also known for his now-famous KD Koh Tao,…
