NAKHON PATHOM, June 13 — The pungent smell of smoke was unmistakable as revellers celebrated under the stars at a major Thai cannabis festival following the kingdom’s decision to begin relaxing the laws around the drug.
At a festival organised by marijuana advocacy group Highland Network, several thousand happy attendees made the most of the newly relaxed rules. Plants are displayed as people gather to celebrate the legalisation of cannabis at the ‘Thailand 420: Legalaew!’ weekend festival hosted by Highland in Nakhon Pathom province on June 11, 2022. — AFP picRoughly 3,000 attendees made the journey to White Sands Beach in Nakhon Pathom province, east of Bangkok, where stalls hawking everything from T-shirts and bongs to marijuana buds and hash brownies jostled with stages and bamboo palisades around an idyllic lake.
“You see the people, they are coming and they are so happy,” he said. “Not just us, the customers have been waiting for this time.” Thai businesses are moving to cash in on the liberalisation, including Charoen Pokphand Foods — the food and farming subsidiary of giant conglomerate CP Group. But while there was a police presence at the festival, officers appeared more curious than censorious.
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