{"id":79553,"date":"2025-06-26T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/thailands-weed-wild-west-faces-new-rules-as-smuggling-to-uk-rises-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:49:06","slug":"thailands-weed-wild-west-faces-new-rules-as-smuggling-to-uk-rises-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/thailands-weed-wild-west-faces-new-rules-as-smuggling-to-uk-rises-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s &#8216;weed wild west&#8217; faces new rules as smuggling to UK rises | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market.<\/p>\n<p>Its government has approved new measures that went into effect <!--more--> on Wednesday restricting the sale of the drug to those with a doctor&#8217;s prescription, in the hope of helping regulate an industry some describe as out of control.<\/p>\n<p>The south-east Asian nation&#8217;s public health minister has also said that consumption of marijuana will be criminalised again, although it&#8217;s unclear when that could happen.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the drug was decriminalised in 2022, there has been a frenzy of investment. There are now around 11,000 registered cannabis dispensaries in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, 173 people accused of smuggling cannabis \u2013 nearly all from Thailand \u2013 have gone through the court system in the UK and received sentences totalling 230 years.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Marijuana #Thailand #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market. Its government has approved new measures that went into effect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}