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Thumbs down for cannabis certificate plan
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/05/2025
» Cannabis advocates have expressed disappointment after learning about a new Public Health Ministry initiative that will require cannabis users to have medical certificates to ensure that the plant is used for medical purposes only.
Weed advocates slam control bill
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/01/2024
» Advocates of cannabis legalisation blasted Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew's decision to endorse a new draft of the cannabis and hemp control bill without consulting the civil sector as he had promised.
Pot oil to debut in hospitals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/09/2019
» The Public Health Ministry on Wednesday started distributing to 22 state-run hospitals the first batch of about 5,000 bottles of "Daycha Oil", a popular cannabis extract oil, as part of a clinical trial of the medical properties of this formula.
'Daycha Oil' set to receive official approval this week
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 10/08/2019
» The cannabis extract oil known as "Daycha Oil" is to get official approval early this week but its creator has ceded responsibility for producing it to the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine.
First cannabis drugs in three weeks
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/08/2019
» Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said hospitals under his ministry will be allowed to prescribe drugs containing cannabis extract within three weeks.
Eight formulas for weed meds get nod
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/06/2019
» The Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine's committee has initially approved eight formulas of cannabis-based traditional medicines and rejected one, according to its director-general.
Doctors could be dishing out weed by end of June
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 25/05/2019
» Some state hospitals under the Ministry of Public Health will begin prescribing cannabis-based medicine by the end of June, a department official said yesterday.
Ganja amnesty finds 10% have valid cause
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 22/05/2019
» About one in 10 of the 20,000 people who registered as being in the illegal possession of cannabis to treat medical ailments were found to have diseases that justified the use of the narcotic, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Tuesday.
Out of the frying pan, into the pot
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/04/2019
» Cannabis oil from the Khaokwan Foundation is expected to be legally distributed to patients by the end of this month, after the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine agreed to register the foundation's leader as a traditional doctor.