BANGKOK — Thailand will work toward legislating marijuana for medical use, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, signaling a U-turn on plans to recriminalize the plant and another change in the government's hazy position on cannabis.
BANGKOK — Thailand will work toward legislating marijuana for medical use, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, signaling a U-turn on plans to recriminalize the plant and another change in the government's hazy position on cannabis. Thailand in 2022 became one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalize marijuana, doing so without a law to govern it or clear regulations in place to prevent its recreational usage.
'It will be a matter of law and debated in parliament where there is already a draft law,' Prommin Lertsuridej, secretary-general to the prime minister, told Reuters. 'Whether it is a narcotic or not is up to parliament.'A draft law on marijuana was submitted to the legislature under the previous administration but parliament was dissolved ahead of an election last year, without a vote taken.
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