Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin says cannabis users in Thailand will be required to have medical certificates to make sure that the plant is used for medical purposes only. His announcement is the latest twist in a long and confusing journey towards regulating cannabis use since it was decriminalised nearly three years ago.
"I will improve regulations on cannabis use in Thailand. For example, cannabis smokers may have to show medical certificates. Foreign and Thai cannabis users must have medical certificates," Mr Somsak said at a press conference on Wednesday in Bangkok.
"We will order government organizations to keep enforcing the law and not to allow any problems to develop," said the minister from the governing Pheu Thai Party.
The key change would require cannabis users to have a medical certificate, with prescriptions issued by licensed medical professionals, including both traditional Thai medicine practitioners and general physicians.
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