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After a cannabis bill aimed at moving the decriminalisation away from recreational use and defining it for medicinal purposes only was shot down this week in the House of Representatives, Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul insists that recriminalising the drug is out of the question. Anutin is the leader of the Bhumjaithai Party who had originally pushed for the legalisation of cannabis in Thailand, but later backtracked after negative stories surfaced of people being harmed by the drug, saying that the party only ever intended it to be made available for medical purposes. In fact, the bill that was blocked […]

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1 hour ago, Malc-Thai said:

Square head must be smoking this with all of his ideas and statements

Not necessarily. I do believe he is growing it, though, and profiting that way. A politician profiting from legislation? Nah, doesn't happen, right?

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Still in the initial faddish craze phase so it's in your face, on the agenda, and leaders need to be seen as 'leading'.  If they just left it alone the hype will fade away, and we could get on with squabbling about the next non-crisis.

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