Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant.

The relaxed laws saw a lucrative cannabis industry catering to locals and foreigners alike boom across the Southeast Asian nation, but a new conservative coalition government came to power late last year vowing to tighten the rules and only allow medical use.

A draft bill was released on Tuesday by Thailand’s health ministry outlining hefty fines or prison sentences of up to one year for offenders – or both.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    2 years ago

    think we replaying the 1920s right now all over the world progress is going backwards at a phenomenal rate

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      2 years ago

      Conservatives should really be called something like Regressionists