
The days of easily buying marijuana on the streets of Bangkok or Phuket may soon be over.
Four years after the Bhumjaithai Party won almost four million votes on a vow to decriminalise cannabis — then carrying it out as the third-biggest bloc in a military-backed government — the tide has turned: most of the parties contesting Sunday’s national election are calling for the measure to be repealed and restrict the use of cannabis to medical purposes.