Groups rally in Bangkok to gather signatures for petition lookingfor to block re-criminalisation PUBLISHED : 28 May 2024 at 21: 46 Shopkeepers wait for consumers at a marijuana store in Phuket on Sept 2,2023 (Photo: Reuters) Hundreds of marijuana businessowners, farmers and activists rallied in Bangkok and threatened legal action versus the federalgovernment as it presses ahead with a strategy to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic simply 2 years after decriminalising it. At Tuesday’s rally in front of the United Nations Economic and Social Commision for Asia and the Pacific headoffice in the capital, almost 2,000 signatures were gathered in assistance of a legal petition to stall the federalgovernment’s relocation. Cannabis supporters held posters with messages like “stop villainising marijuana.” The petition would be submitted with the Central Administrative Court versus Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, stated Jerawat Tanyaprirom, a canna
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