Sri Racha’s hemp-marijuana festival starts February 9

Festival organisers will host an event promoting marijuana for health benefits, even though they note that recreational smoking is still illegal in Thailand. The festival is called “Hemp-Marijuana, King of Herbs,” and will last from February 9-14 at the Pacific Park Shopping Mall in Sri Racha. The festival will have concerts, 24 booths that will teach people how to grow marijuana legally, and sell marijuana drinks and skin products, and medical marijuana.

The organisers added that some of the money the festival makes will go to charities that manufacture and sell medical equipment.

The organisers say the goal of the festival is to break stigmas around marijuana, like the idea that that it’s bad for society. They said marijuana will be important for Thailand’s economic future. Now that some parts of cannabis and hemp plants have been taken off Thailand’s narcotics list,…