BANGKOK – Thailand’s recent legislation of medical marijuana has spurred active efforts to develop the herb’s medicinal properties. Several organisations have unveiled their plans. For instance,...
BANGKOK – Psychiatric experts in Thailand are warning against using marijuana extracts or cannabis-based medicines to treat patients, including young people suffering from mental illnesses, as...
BANGKOK – People who are wishing to use marijuana (cannabis) for medicinal purposes in Thailand can now register for legal possession without being punished. Health ministerial...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha issued a special executive order under Article 44 on Monday enabling the Department of Intellectual Property to...
BANGKOK – The Thai Public is being urged to keep a close eye on every detail in the legalization of medical marijuana, so that big pharmaceutical...
BANGKOK – Farmers in Thailand are welcoming a new law allowing cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes Wednesday, in an Asian first that...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Junta Government the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Christmas Day passed the second and third readings of an amendment to the narcotics law...
BANGKOK – Thailand is on the brink of becoming the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize medical marijuana, a development that has pot connoisseurs around...
BANGKOK – Rangsit University and the Union of Thai Traditional Medicine have given a 15-day deadline for the Intellectual Property Department to drop all medical...
BANGKOK – Thailand is set to become the first Asian country to legalese medical marijuana, but a battle is brewing between local and foreign firms...
NAKHON PHANOM – Authorities in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom have seized more than 500 kilograms of marijuana smuggled into Thai soil from neighbouring...
CHIANG RAI – The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Niyom Termsrisuk announced yesterday that a heightened cooperation between six countries as part of...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s legislature the National Legislative Assembly’s (NLA) has officially proposed allowing the licensed medical use of marijuana, making it a potential trailblazer in Asia...
BANGKOK – Somchai Sawaengkarn, a member of the National Legislative Assembly said yesterday that there is an overwhelming number of people who have voiced support for...
OTTAWA – Canada will become the first major industrialized country to fully decriminalize cannabis for recreational use on Wednesday, fulfilling a 2015 election pledge from Prime...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Governmental Pharmac-eutical Organisation (GPO) has begun researching how to develop medicines from marijuana in acknowledgement of evidence that the outlawed substance has health-enhancing...
CHIANG RAI – In December 2017, the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economic...
CHIANG RAI – For decades, Thailand was one of America’s most resolute allies in the war on drugs, draft legislation permitting research into the effects...
CHUMPON – Thailand’s Narcotics Suppression Bureau has made one of its largest crystal methamphetamine busts, seizing 700 million baht ($22.42 million) worth of the drug, police...
– BANGKOK – Thailand’s Narcotics Control Board director, Sirinya Sitdhichai, announced this week, that after decades of extreme drug prohibition, the Thai government is now...