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Benzinga
Benzinga
Business
Joana Scopel

New Study Shows Feeding Cannabis To Chickens May Boost Commercial Value Of Poultry

After Thailand legalized marijuana, a farming community in Lampang, northern Thailand, has started treating its chickens with cannabis instead of antibiotics and selling cannabis-fed chicken meat and eggs.

Now, researchers from Chiang Mai University's Department of Animal and Aquatic Sciences said that the experiment shows positive signs. They said fewer than 10% of the 1,000 chickens have died since Lampang's Farm introduced cannabis to the chickens' diet in January 2021.

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