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Efforts intensify to stop wild elephants entering communities, tourist sites
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 03/02/2026
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA — Park rangers are trying to keep wild elephants away from communities and tourist attractions during the dry season. The measures cover a bull elephant that has killed three people, including a camper, in this northeastern province.
Hunger-striking cannabis advocate admitted to hospital
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 16/07/2024
» A member of a pro-cannabis group was hospitalised on Monday, five days after going on a hunger strike to protest the government's plan to relist cannabis as a narcotic.
Pro-weed groups put heat on govt
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 13/05/2024
» The government is facing increasing pressure from pro-cannabis groups which are threatening to rally at the Ministry of Public Health from Thursday until the ministry can prove that cannabis deserves to be reclassified as a narcotic drug.
Weed farms fret as MFP mulls U-turn
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 25/05/2023
» Community enterprises that grow cannabis on plantations in Nakhon Ratchasima are urging the next government, to be led by the Move Forward Party (MFP), to list only cannabis buds as narcotic drugs.
Get off the grass, it's for hospital use
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 18/07/2020
» Suranaree University of Technology in Nakhon Ratchasima on Friday harvested its first crop of cannabis for medical use. The plants will be given to a hospital in Buri Ram to produce Thai herbal medicine on a commercial scale.
Farmers continue drying paddy on roads despite fatal crash
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 13/11/2019
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Farmers continue to dry their freshly harvested rice on public roads in this northeastern province even though it recently caused a fatal collision and is illegal.
Cops searching for pot farm suspect
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 27/08/2019
» Police are searching for a Bangkok businessman who illegally grew 700 marijuana plants on his orchard in Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Khieo district.