One dead from suspected ganja overdose, three in Bangkok hospitals but no arrest for smoking cannabis in public so far


Chadchart Sittipunt, the governor of Bangkok. - The Nation Thailand/ANN

BANGKOK, June 14 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): A 51-year-old man has died of heart failure after smoking cannabis while a 16-year-old boy is among three other people who have suffered overdose symptoms in Bangkok, the governor said on Tuesday.

Chadchart Sittipunt was speaking after chairing a meeting of senior Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) officials on return from his four-day trip to attend his son’s university commencement ceremony in the US.

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