THAILAND
The Tobacco Authority of Thailand (TAOT) is lobbying for a license to produce cannabis-based cigarettes, hoping that if it can get the go-ahead to do so, the cannabis cigarettes would be as available in convenience stores as normal tobacco cigarettes.
TAOT is using health benefits as its reason for this move.
“Our main intention when requesting a license had to do with the medical benefits, research and extracting the oils to export to other countries. But if the Ministry of Health lets us produce cigarettes, we are ready to do so immediately,” said Daonoi Suttiniphapunt, TAOT managing director.
Suttiniphapunt explained that if legislated the cannabis cigarettes would mostly contain CBD, the non-psychoactive compound that doesn’t give you a ‘high’, so the medical benefits would be available but not the ‘highs’ usually associated with cannabis.