Listen to this articleCannabis plants for sale at Nonthaburi Green Market in Nonthaburi in 2023. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)The Public Health Ministry will issue a new ministerial regulation to tighten control of the production, import, export, sale and possession of cannabis and hemp extracts. The draft, proposed by the Public Health Ministry, will be submitted to the Council of State, the government's legal arm, for scrutiny, Pol Lt Gen Phanurat said, adding the draft regulation will be issued under the Narcotics Code. On Monday, the ONCB secretary-general met British Ambassador Mark Gooding to discuss measures to tackle the smuggling of cannabis from Thailand to the UK. The British envoy said more than 200 smugglers from Thailand have been arrested in the UK so far this year, Pol Lt Gen Phanurat said, adding the ambassador expressed concern about transnational criminal networks pulling the strings.
