Curious

Just wondering how far Thailand was into legalizing marijuana, saw an interview on Khao sarn road and looks like locals are pretty up for it. How challenging would it be to get on the list of opening marijuana farms?

Locals on KSR? You mean hippies. 3 hippies saying yes in an interview means nothing.

Hard to believe you've been to Thailand.

I'd say that the view of a typical person who hangs around KSR might well be very different to those in the rest of the country,never mind those who actually run the nation.

Maybe if the military etc.can make enough money from it,they might be interested...

The current regime is very conservative and moralistic. So, not only unlikely but currently there some pretty nasty penalties for all drug offences.
The days when Thailand's marijuana products were sought after all over the world are gone.
Partly because of the dangers of shipping it, but also because of the abundance of very high grade home grown stuff.
If marijuana was made legal worldwide I'm sure that Thailand has plenty of people ready and prepared not only to meet the demand but also ensure that no foreigners get in on the act.

Me thinks you are a troll.

On the other hand it used to legal in Cambodia but nowadays its illegal there - see this THREAD about it.

KSR is a tourist street not a hippy street.

You see plenty of families around KSR. I was first there in 1990 and it wasn't really a hippy street even then. Or not what I had envisaged a hippy street to be, not coming from a place where there was one.

It is still quasi legal in Thailand, like a lot of things. Illegal but tolerated if you are a local and just partaking of personal consumption.

It is also a proven money spinner. Sell it to a tourist … Ka-Ching .... report the sale to the local police, get kickback ... Ka-ching. Police arrest these tourist narcotic kingpins. Apply Jail, Fine, Fees ... Ka-Ching ..... Ka- ching .... Ka-ching

Lot of money in the illegal marijuana trade. Who wants to stop that?

A long time ago when Phuket was still mostly a travellers island I met someone who told me how he once tried to help out someone who had been arrested for weed . On some visits to the police cell he also got on talking terms to a couple of police there who told him they had a quota of foreigners to arrest. To stop things getting too free and easy the powers that be had ordered the police to do regular or at least a certain number of raids and arrests.
Police raids are not always about bribes , sometimes they have been told from above to carry out operations.

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