By Chayut Setboonsarng
By Chayut Setboonsarng
BANGKOK, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Thailand opened its first full-time clinic specialising in conventional and various cannabis-based drugs on Monday, as a part of a transfer by the federal government in the direction of creating a medicinal hashish trade.
“It is a pilot clinic, as a result of we can’t produce sufficient docs with experience in hashish,” Public Well being Minister, Anutin Charnvirankul, advised reporters on the opening ceremony in Bangkok. Sufferers will obtain therapy freed from cost for the primary two weeks, he added.
Thailand, which has a convention of utilizing hashish to alleviate ache and fatigue, legalized marijuana for medical use and analysis in 2017 to spice up agricultural earnings.
There are already round 25 hashish clinics connected to normal hospitals across the nation however, in contrast to the newly-launched pilot clinic, they function for only a few days every week because of an absence of specialized workers.
The biggest producer of…