In this photo taken on April 19, 2019, a man wears a First Nations inspired costume during the first day of the inaugural Pan Ram weed festival in the Thai northeastern province of Buriram. - Thailand became the first in Southeast Asia to legalise marijuana for medical purposes in 2018, joining a growing list of governments to embrace liberalisation including Canada, Australia, Israel and more than half the US states. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)
BANGKOK: Thailand’s ailing economy, particularly its tourism and agriculture sectors, is poised to get a boost from new rules that ease the private cultivation and sale of medical marijuana.
The Cabinet amended the Narcotics Act on Aug 4, pending Parliament’s approval, to allow private medical operators – a category including some traditional medicine practitioners and farmers – to grow and trade the crop including for both export and import.
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