According to reports, Thailand officially became the first country in Asia to "legalize marijuana", and at the same time, Thai prisoners who were previously sentenced to prison for allegedly smoking, growing, selling and other marijuana have also been released from prison since June 9.
For Thailand's decision, many people feel "too crazy", after all, marijuana is a recognized drug, abuse is life-threatening, once it is legalized, then, because Thailand's new law does not clearly indicate that in the end, which case will be held responsible, which also means that in the future in Thailand, marijuana will be "used at will".
So why is Thailand legalizing marijuana?
It is reported that Thailand is doing this in order to attract foreign tourists. Because there are very few countries in the world where marijuana is legalized, before Thailand legalized it this time, Uruguay, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, India, and a few European countries allowed adults to hold small amounts of marijuana.
Compared with these countries, the legalization of cannabis in Thailand is obviously more applicable, because Thailand hopes that people can grow marijuana under the guidance of the authorities, and at the same time advises people to carry out commercial sales of cannabis, and also encourages Thai restaurants, even food production, to add a small amount of marijuana to their own drinks and foods.
It can be seen from here that Thailand hopes to make foreign tourists frequently travel to Thailand in order to smoke marijuana, thereby promoting Thailand's economic development. Thailand has taken action to distribute 1 million cannabis seedlings to the public free of charge and has advised everyone to plant as much as possible.
So, what are the implications of the legalization of cannabis in Thailand?
First, one of the most immediate effects is the potential to rapidly increase the number of people dying from overdose of cannabis. For example, after the Legalization of Marijuana was allowed in the United States, since 2020, more than 100,000 Americans have died of drug abuse every year, which has also made many American scholars point out that the legalization of marijuana will make the drug epidemic in the United States more and more serious.
The same is true for Thailand. Although Thailand currently does not allow recreational smoking of cannabis, but there is no clear definition of which case is recreational smoking, in addition to Thailand's plan to add cannabis to food, which also means that in the future, Thailand may become a "national drug" country, which may make Thailand not only not play a role in improving the economy, but may be counterproductive, so that the situation in the country is getting worse and worse.
Secondly, because Thailand after the legalization of marijuana, the future relevant policies will be more and more relaxed, which also means that in some countries where the control of marijuana and other related drugs is very strict, the control of thai imports, especially food and the like, will be more stringent in the future, and it may even be possible to avoid the harm of Thai cannabis for its own nationals, and put forward some restrictive regulations.
So, is there also a situation of cannabis cultivation in the mainland?
What many people don't know is that although the mainland is the country with the largest anti-drug efforts in the world, the mainland is also allowed to grow cannabis, but the mainland has extremely strict regulations in this regard, at present, only Yunnan and Heilongjiang are allowed to grow industrial hemp under control.
Among them, it is worth mentioning that the mainland Yunnan is also one of the most important producers of industrial hemp in the world, and hemp products have been mainly sold to European and American countries in recent years.
Seeing this, perhaps friends will wonder, since marijuana is a drug, why does the mainland allow a small amount of cultivation under control conditions? What is the so-called industrial hemp?
Speaking of which, this is because everything has two sides, hemp is no exception, although hemp is a kind of drug, but it is also the main raw material in some industrial production fields, especially in the field of medicine, cannabidiol in cannabis, a small amount of addition within the prescribed range, is able to play a certain medical effect.
This also allows hemp to put aside the drug point of view, from an industrial point of view, it is also a crop with high economic value, including the United Nations also allows the global industrial hemp trade, allowing the cultivation of industrial hemp crops.
Therefore, the mainland Yunnan and Heilongjiang will have the qualification to grow industrial hemp, and the entire series of processes such as planting, production and sales are also counted and supervised by professional departments to ensure that each link is completely clear and transparent, in addition to legal uses, cannabis will not be allowed to flow into other illegal channels.
Therefore, in fact, the legalization of cannabis in Thailand, if it is to allow people to grow industrial hemp under supervision, this is actually not a problem in itself, but Thailand hopes to attract foreign tourists to Thailand to smoke marijuana, which is "ill-intentioned". So, in everyone's opinion, what are the impacts of the legalization of cannabis in Thailand? What are your thoughts on this? Welcome to leave a message and share it with us!