Just two months after Thailand’s government passed laws that legalised cannabis, the country’s health minister has discouraged tourists who want to smoke cannabis from visiting.
‘We don’t welcome those kinds of tourists,’ Thailand’s Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said when asked about recreational marijuana use among foreign visitors.
Despite the government’s position, cannabis businesses with private smoking rooms have been visited by locals and visitors alike, according to CNN.
Authorities aim to curb its recreational use by limiting the strength of products on offer. The possession and sale of cannabis extracts containing more than 0.2% of its psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is not allowed.
So even if tourists visit Thailand with the intention of lighting up, they will struggle to get ‘stoned’.
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