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Thailand cannabis industry in limbo a year after decriminalization

Move Forward Party's planned curbs loom over booming industry

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Members of the Department for the Development of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine inspect a cannabis shop on Khaosan Road in Bangkok on April 20. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)

FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei staff writer
June 6, 2023 11:37 JST

BANGKOK -- It was open for only half a year, but a cannabis store on Bangkok's Convent Road attracted enough controversy to feature in local newspapers. As bad publicity mounted, authorities suspended the store's license for operating across the street from a private girls' school.

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