Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant.

The relaxed laws saw a lucrative cannabis industry catering to locals and foreigners alike boom across the Southeast Asian nation, but a new conservative coalition government came to power late last year vowing to tighten the rules and only allow medical use.

A draft bill was released on Tuesday by Thailand’s health ministry outlining hefty fines or prison sentences of up to one year for offenders – or both.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      3210 months ago

      You know what’s even worse than conservatives? People who vote for them.

        • @Buddahriffic
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          310 months ago

          So the people voting for them used guns or threats instead of ballots. I’d still say those ones are even worse for enabling the leaders.

          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            110 months ago

            Yeah. The Thais make the French look like Americans when it comes to protesting. Everyone is just so used to government not working and impossible to make it work that they don’t even bother.

            They cancelled the results of a election this summer and the great reaction was a few student protests that were calm.