Thailand’s National Tobacco Products Control Committee has moved to ban sales of vaping products products containing cannabis extracts, along with traditional cannabis cigarettes and cigars.
The meeting was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Following the decision, a new guideline will be introduced in the form of ministerial regulations, while rules for e-cigarettes fall under the responsibility of the police and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, according to Thai News..
Concerning the reported sales and consumption of cannabis by a primary school student in Lampang, the minister said the consumption of cannabis products among people under the age of 20 is strictly prohibited.
Charnvirakul reiterated the health ministry’s stance against recreational cannabis use, saying the draft cannabis and hemp bill proposed in Thailand’s National Assembly does not contain any clauses that explicitly permit recreational use.
Thailand decriminalized the growing, sale, possession, and use of cannabis last month with very few rules or regulations in place to manage the newly legalized drug. Politicians soon announced that they had thought the legalization would be used mainly for medical purposes, and never intended for it to be a legal recreational drug.