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    Thailand looks set to crack down on legal pot market with ban on 'recreational' use

    by By Jintamas Saksornchai Feb 13, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

    Two years after Thailand made pot legal, the country appears set to crack down on its freewheeling drug market with a ban on “recreational” use.

    Legal cannabis has fueled Thailand's tourism and farming trades and spawned thousands of neon green shops, but it's facing public backlash over perceptions that under-regulation has made the drug available to kids and caused crime.

    The is expected to consider a law that would ban recreational cannabis

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