News Forum - Cabinet shake-up plants seeds for cannabis reform in Thailand

[Thaiger]

The Thai Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin could spark high-stakes changes to the cannabis bill after former Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin replaced Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew. Cholnan, who led the charge in the cannabis debate, faced a blaze of controversy over the plant’s legalisation in 2022 by Anutin Charnvirakul, the former Public … …

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[ChrisS]

Reading between the lines the Government are looking to earn more money from canabis than they do at the moment.

[MrStretch]

10 hours ago, ChrisS said:

Reading between the lines the Government are looking to earn more money from canabis than they do at the moment.

That seems to be the underlying consideration of absolutely everything from Srettha's administration.  They keep proposing spending tons of money they don't have.

I think some regulation should be in place but if they enforced what is already supposed to be policy, it should be sufficient.

Their fear mongering when cannabis was first decriminalized never came to be, no matter how many times they kept warning society about the dangers.  Alcohol presents far more problems, especially among youth.

[BainaiThai]

I have to believe the staff had fun writing this...obviously a 4th down...pun formation.