Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul opens a workshop to develop the potential of enterprise operators to process kanchong or hemp as health products at Muang Thong Thani on Aug 31 last year. (File photo by Pornprom Satrabhaya)
Anyone can register to grow, trade and have in possession hemp under a new ministerial regulation coming into effect on Friday.
The regulation allows the production, import, export, distribution and possession of hemp, or kanchong, a Type 5 narcotic.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deputy secretary-general Supattra Boonserm said that Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul had signed the ministerial regulation to that effect on Thursday.
Under the rules, anyone — growers, public and private sectors, and members of the public — can seek permission to grow hemp for…
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