The Thai government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June to mark a new rule allowing people to grow cannabis at home, its health minister has said.
Highlights
- Thailand to distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June.
- Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced the move in a Facebook post on May 8.
- The move is the latest step in Thailand’s plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop.
- Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia in 2018 to legalize cannabis for medical research and use of it for medicinal purposes in 2018.
- The kingdom has also loosened local laws around cannabis, loosening local laws to allow people to grow the drug at home.
- The plants will have to be of medical grade and used exclusively for medicinal use only for medical purposes.