Already 2021 is budding with possibility.
Up first is a government-backed tour to promote just how awesome marijuana is (for medical use) announced today by Tourism and Sports Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn.
Pipat said the tour will blaze through eight provinces in early 2021 with growing potential to increase awareness of marijuana’s medical benefits: Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Ratchasima, Buriram, Chonburi, Samut Songkhram, Lampang, Mae Hong Son and Phatthalung.
Members of the public can buy packages that will include tours of marijuana farms, talks about current regulations and demonstrations of how to grow and make money from cannabis.
If the tours go well, Pipat said they could be expanded to many more provinces.
Later next year, Buriram will host a “Ganja Expo,” that’s also supported by the tourism authority and features facility visits and demonstrations.
The marijuana biz got a boost in August when the cabinet opened up growing to patients, health workers and licensed folk healers – who obtain licenses. Since approved, it allows Thai patients with valid medical certificates to grow their own cannabis for personal use. Health care workers and licensed traditional practitioners may grow it for medical and commercial purposes.
Thailand became the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize medical marijuana in 2018.
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