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Bangkok Post
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Pot-smoking tourists not welcome in Thailand: health minister Anutin

Signage is seen in front of the RG420 cannabis store, at Khaosan Road in Bangkok on July 31, 2022. (Reuters file photo)

Thailand’s health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that have largely decriminalised the drug.

"We don't welcome those kinds of tourists," Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters when asked about recreational marijuana use among foreign visitors.

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