Cannabis dispensaries began operating two months before the flower was taken off the narcotics list. In May the government announced it would give away a million plants to households.[1]
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People · Thai politician, health minister and prime minister · born 1966Anutin CharnvirakulThe Thai health minister who took cannabis off the narcotics list in 2022 and promised a million free plants to households, making Thailand the first Asian country to decriminalise. Three years later, as prime minister, he led the government that moved to tighten it again.
Language · English; from the verb dispenseDispensaryAn old word for a place that hands out medicine, which in the United States became the name of the cannabis shop. The medical word was chosen because, for twenty years, medicine was the only legal ground cannabis could be sold on.
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