“These five weed leaves … should contain around 0.7% THC. Just enough to get you in a good mood,” the restaurant manager said of the lightly battered and fried greenery spilling across the plate.
Good moods are on the menu just a couple hours outside Bangkok at what looks to be yet another charming and folksy riverside cafe, albeit one transformed by embrace of cannabis-based wellness. It’s there that Amara Akamanon preaches the benefits of a menu infused with ingredients that were criminal just last month.
Two weeks after the law was amended to declassify most of the marijuana plant as illicit, Ban Lao Rueng (Storytelling House) in Prachinburi city has updated its menu with cannabis dishes such as the plate of “tempura weed,” as well as cannabis juice-infused drinks and pot pizza.
The restaurant is housed in a 71-year-old residence two hours by car…
