{"id":2903,"date":"2020-08-02T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabisforthailand.com\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2020-08-02T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T09:10:43","slug":"thailand-allowing-hospitals-to-produce-cannabis-based-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabisforthailand.com\/thailand-allowing-hospitals-to-produce-cannabis-based-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Allowing Hospitals to Produce Cannabis-Based Medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in Thailand can now make and provide cannabis-based medicines selected from a government-approved list of 16 recipes for traditional Thai medicines that contain cannabis as a base ingredient, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/general\/1957983\/hospitals-get-green-light-to-produce-cannabis-meds\">Bangkok Post<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marut Jirasetthasiri, director-general of the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine, said that health promotion hospitals in the country are now free to make the medicines so long as there is an expert in traditional Thai medicine on duty to prepare them. The medicines were traditionally prescribed to help treat common illnesses in each region of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marut said the demand for traditional medicine treatments has increased so the department has allowed 152 health promotion hospitals to expand their cannabis farms. There are currently 291 units offering cannabis-based medicines at state-run medical outlets throughout the country, and more than 60,000 cannabis-based treatments have been issued so far this year, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a health clinic in Chiang Mai became the country\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganjapreneur.com\/thai-clinic-offering-both-cannabis-and-mainstream-medicine\/\">first medical outlet<\/a>\u00a0to offer the cannabis-based medicines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ganjapreneur.com\/topic\/thailand\">Thailand<\/a>\u00a0legalized the medical use of cannabis in late 2018, making it the first Southeast Asian country to do so. Adult-use cannabis, however, remains prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganjapreneur.com\/thai-government-may-source-medical-cannabis-from-citizen-growers\/\">last November<\/a>\u00a0would have allowed Thai citizens to cultivate up to six cannabis plants at home and sell their harvests back to the government to be processed into medical cannabis products.<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ganjapreneur.com\/thailand-allowing-hospitals-to-produce-cannabis-based-medicines\/\">ganjapreneur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals in Thailand can now make and provide cannabis-based medicines selected from a government-approved list of 16 recipes for traditional Thai medicines that contain cannabis &#8230; <a title=\"Thailand Allowing Hospitals to Produce Cannabis-Based Medicines\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cannabisforthailand.com\/thailand-allowing-hospitals-to-produce-cannabis-based-medicines\/\" aria-label=\"More on Thailand Allowing Hospitals to Produce Cannabis-Based Medicines\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[34,131,121,132,59,56,118,117,55,126,46,65,125,128,119,61,63,123,130,133],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.6.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thailand Allowing Hospitals to Produce Cannabis-Based Medicines - Cannabis for Thailand<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cannabisforthailand.com\/thailand-allowing-hospitals-to-produce-cannabis-based-medicines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thailand Allowing Hospitals to Produce Cannabis-Based Medicines - Cannabis for Thailand\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hospitals in Thailand can now make and provide cannabis-based medicines selected from a government-approved list of 16 recipes for traditional Thai medicines that contain cannabis ... 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