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Medical cannabis: Will Malaysia follow in Thailand’s footsteps?
Published on: Monday, April 03, 2023
Published on: Mon, Apr 03, 2023
By: Shahrir Jublee
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Medical cannabis: Will Malaysia follow in Thailand’s footsteps?
Former Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin and his Thai counterpart Anutin Charnvirakul looking at cannabis plants and products at Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) Thanyaburi Branch in Pathum Thani, Thailand.
ON April 28, 2021, an article on Cannabis Hemp was published on the Institute for Development Studies (Sabah) website in an attempt to gauge the public’s sentiment on this polarising plant.

Feedbacks showed that Malaysians have high hopes that the legalisation effort in Malaysia will eventually be materialised.

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Fast forward to a year later, neighbouring country Thailand has outpaced Malaysia by fully legalising the cannabis plant on June 9, 2022.
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