Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant.

The relaxed laws saw a lucrative cannabis industry catering to locals and foreigners alike boom across the Southeast Asian nation, but a new conservative coalition government came to power late last year vowing to tighten the rules and only allow medical use.

A draft bill was released on Tuesday by Thailand’s health ministry outlining hefty fines or prison sentences of up to one year for offenders – or both.

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      1 year ago

      Won’t someone please think of the children!!!

      Seriously though, why not just support regulating them and allowing only reusable vapes instead of supporting a ban which only results in a black market?

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        1 year ago

        Has this happened anywhere? My country has talked about banning disposables and only disposables. It makes too much money from vaping to ban it totally.