Ungqongqoshe Wezempilo eThailand u-Anutin Charnvirakul umemezele kuFacebook ende ukuthi iBhodi Elilawula Izidakamizwa zaseThailand “ekugcineni” livumile ukukhipha zonke izingxenye zesitshalo sensangu ohlwini lukahulumeni lwezidakamizwa ezilawulwayo, okwenza iThailand ibe izwe lokuqala e-Asia ukuqeda ukusetshenziswa kwensangu.
Ungqongqoshe wezempilo, osenesikhathi eside esekela ukugunyazwa kwensangu, unxuse abantu ukuthi basebenzise lesi sidakamizwa ukuze “bazuze” kunokuthi “badale umonakalo.”
Ebiza lesi simemezelo ngokuthi “izindaba ezinhle,” uCharnvirakul waphawula ukuthi “imithetho nezinhlaka” zokutshala nokusebenzisa insangu zidinga ukusungulwa ukuze kuqinisekiswe ukuthi insangu izosetshenziselwa “ukuzuzisa abantu kwezokwelapha, ucwaningo, imfundo.”
"Ngicela ungayisebenziseli ukulimaza," kusho uCharnvirakul.
Nokho ungqongqoshe akazange acacise ukuthi lezi zinguquko zizoba nomthelela kanjani esimweni esisemthethweni sokusetshenziswa kwesidakamizwa ukungcebeleka, okuyindawo empunga njengamanje. Njengamanje, amaphoyisa endawo nabameli abanaso isiqiniseko sokuthi ukutholakala nensangu kuseyicala yini okumele baboshwe.
Le mithetho iyingxenye yoMthetho wensangu kanye ne-Hemp ogqamisa ukutshalwa kwensangu ekhaya ngemuva kokwazisa kuqala uhulumeni wasekhaya. Amalayisense azodingeka ukusebenzisa insangu ngezinjongo zokuthengisa
Umthethonqubo omusha uzoqala ukusebenza ezinsukwini eziyi-120 ngemuva kokumenyezelwa kwawo eshicilelwe kuhulumeni.
Insangu yabhaliswa ngokomthetho ukusetshenziswa kwezokwelashwa kanye nocwaningo eThailand ngo-2020.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- Calling the announcement “good news,” Charnvirakul noted that the “rules and frameworks” for planting and using marijuana need to be established to make sure that cannabis will be used for “for the benefit of the people in medicine, research, education.
- Thailand’s Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced in a lengthy Facebook post that Thai Narcotics Control Board has “finally” agreed to exclude all parts of the cannabis plant from the government's list of controlled drugs, making Thailand the first country in Asia to decriminalize marijuana use.
- The rules are part of the Marijuana and Hemp Act which greenlights the growing of cannabis at home after first notifying the local government.
