News Forum - Sri Racha’s hemp-marijuana festival starts February 9

[Thaiger]

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 […]

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[ThaiEyes]

Yes marijuana is great for making ropes and clothes and such. You’d have to smoke or eat a kilo of 0.2% to get high. Creative advertisers have done a good job though to make people think the “products” are cool.

[CamPat]

The benefits and risks will show up later. Financially i believe that Thailand could become an important hub for junkies to fill up the empty coffers. For society in a whole i have my doubts about the benefits. I see more risks.