Welcome to Thailand - order for instructing police to arrest those selling cannabis without official sanction has been withdrawn

[Coss]

A health ministry order that effectively spelled the end of unlicensed weed sales was revoked late Wednesday, hours after it spooked many shops into suspending operations with fears of arrest.

Dispensaries may continue operating, for now, after a top health official said late Wednesday afternoon that the order for instructing police to arrest those selling cannabis without official sanction had been withdrawn – an order that came despite there being no such licenses or legal requirement to possess one.

That’s exactly why it was pulled, according to Arun Avery of cannabis advocacy Highland, which operates a dispensary of the same name in Lat Phrao. Eager to show they were cracking down, he said, officials jumped the gun by insisting on licenses that don’t actually exist nor were required by law.

“That’s exactly the point,” he said. “Welcome to Thailand.”.......  LINK

[Mekong]

Anutin strikes again, if he would actually do his job rather than blame “Dirty Foreigners” for Covid and Monkeypox things wouldn’t be quite so bad.

It was the Ministry of Public Health, of which Anutin is the Minister of, as well as being Deputy Prime Minister, who legalized Cannabis in a rush to placate the people. Lenin said “Religion is the Opiate of the Masses” Anutin said “Let then get stoned and they will vote for us”

It wasn’t a PPRP policy to legalise weed but the main coalition party (BJT Bhumjaithai Party) without whom PRP would not be in power, the leader of which is, you guessed it Anutin (hence why Deputy PM)

Now in any reasonable society, legalization of a controlled substance would come with its own set of liscensing conditions, such as age of purchaser, premises required to sell etc, much like with alcohol, but in Thailand, due to a slight oversight by the Deputy Prime Minister non the less, Cannabis was legalized without any licsencing requirements.

In his panic, Anutin the Leader of BJT, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health, the decides to prosecute people for breaking laws which he should have implanted but didn’t, hoping nobody would notice this legal irregularity.

And these are the people running Thailand, incompetence personified, it’s enough to make you wanna get stoned.