SPLIT VIEWS AS POLITICAL CHAOS BRINGS BACK TALKS OF CANNABIS RECRIMINALISATION
July 21st, 2023
The May (2023) general election in Thailand which saw fully democratic parties win handsomely over the military-backed ruling United Thai Nation party could throw the country’s recent decriminalisation of cannabis into doubt.
The progressive Move Forward Party topped the polls, along with allies it commands a majority in Thailand’s parliamentary lower House of Representatives. Along with the generally pro-military non-party Senate, both houses sitting together elect a Prime Minister and hence government, sitting together – with that meeting anticipated on ...
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