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Using cannabis legally in Thailand

Toto Inasal Cannabis Tea. Courtesy: Toto Inasal

I am into cannabis for 10 days now. I bought two packs with 20 tea bags of dried leaves and stems. I sometimes go to a cannabis bar for cannabis pizza, cannabis pudding and everything with cannabis in it. But I’m not an addict.

My South African friend, Emile, called me “pothead” since I told him about my newfound “cure” for the chronic pain I’ve had since I can remember. The pain is subsiding. Thanks to cannabis.

In the Philippines, possession and use of cannabis is a major crime under Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drug Act of 2002, which carries penalties of imprisonment and fines of up to P10 million for possession of at least 500 grams of marijuana. Or worse, get “tokhanged,” a portmanteau of extrajudicial killing).

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