Anutin loosens 3 regulations to enable traditional and folk practitioners to prescribe cannabis

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Anutin loosens 3 regulations to enable traditional and folk practitioners to prescribe cannabis

By The Nation

 

 

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul this week signed three ministerial regulations aimed to facilitate the medicinal use of cannabis. They include the legal status reinstatement for some 3,000 folk practitioners, including Khao Kwan Foundation president and activist Decha Siripat, so they could prescribe cannabis without violating narcotic laws.

 

During his meeting on Tuesday with 20 folk practitioners led by Decha, the minister regaled them with details of his decision to sign the amended ministerial regulation ratifying their status so without their having to undergo the extensive process of checking and ratifying that was required under the previous regulation.

 

He also shared what they saw as more good news – Decha’s cannabis oil formula would be tabled for the narcotics control committee's consideration on August 13. Products made according to the formula had been distributed by the foundation to cancer patients until that was stopped five months ago. 

 

Anutin also signed two amended regulations, said Food and Drug Administration secretary-general Dr Tares Krassanairawiwong. The first regulation sets the criteria for cannabis-mixed medicinal formulas for treating ailments or for research, and the other details the criteria under which Thai practitioners of traditional medicine, as well as folk practitioners, would be allowed to make or prescribe cannabis-mixed medicines.

 

Thai practitioners of traditional medicine, as well as folk practitioners, would now be able to more conveniently make or prescribe cannabis medicines without waiting to use the marijuana supply from the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine as the previous rule had required, Tares said.

 

Thai Holistic Health Foundation committee member Rosana Tositrakul also took the opportunity to propose to Anutin that Thai traditional medicine practitioners, and particularly the folk practitioners who are legally ratified and are giving away free medicines to people, should be the first group allowed to grow marijuana plants for use by their patients.

 

That should be a higher priority, she said, than a proposal to allow "Aor Sor Mor" village health volunteers and the general public to grow six marijuana plants per family. Rosana said she believed that Thai traditional medicine practitioners and folk practitioners would not abuse this right as they could face revocation of their licence or permit and criminal punishment.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374401

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-08-07

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[DaddyWarbucks]

Very good news indeed.

Thailand is moving on this issue with unexpected speed.

Keep it up boys, don't bogart that joint.

[HOAX]

Guess where the hippie-farangs will hang around in the near-coming future...

[DrTuner]

Who's the closest shaman near Pattaya then?

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, DaddyWarbucks said:

Thailand is moving on this issue with unexpected speed.

Chasing the money... more like.

[Bert got kinky]

22 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Chasing the money... more like.

 

Normally I would agree but this is Anutin Charnvirakul and money does not seem to be the motivation for legalizing MJ, he was an MJ activist before he was in a position to make any money from the legalization.

 

Well done Anutin, next step full legalization.

 

[fvw53]

23 hours ago, HOAX said:

Guess where the hippie-farangs will hang around in the near-coming future...

Do you criticize a Thai politician who kept his election promise?

Nobody ever died of a cannabis overdose 

I am not a hippie-farang and I am 75 and I will be happy to get access to medical cannabis if I would get a terminal cancer / I do not want to smoke it but to have it available in liquid form.

I repeat once more on this forum the CNN report by neurosurgeon Dr Sanjay Gupta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90JW1fTw8U

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

I was one of those that questioned the effectiveness of the local traditional doctors,that will no longer be the case as I will become an avid supporter instead in fact I feel some ailments coming on now that will require some attention.

[Grandpa Cool]

Cannabis tourism is going to bring more foreign exchange to Thailand  than a bunch of tight ar$e Indians ever will. Bring it on!

[HerbalEd]

On 8/7/2019 at 5:02 PM, DrTuner said:

Who's the closest shaman near Pattaya then?

Haven't you seen? Pattaya is full of barstool sham men.