Thailand has issued new enforcement guidelines for cannabis businesses, introducing license suspensions, possible revocations, stricter reporting rules, and tighter controls around prescriptions, advertising, online sales, and on-site use. The move signals a continued shift away from the country’s post-2022 cannabis boom toward a more controlled medical framework with heavier state oversight.
Thailand has moved the cannabis chessboard—yes, once again. After becoming one of the most closely watched markets in the world following decriminalization in 2022, the Asian country continues to adjust the boundaries of an industry that grew quickly, attracted tourism, opened thousands of stores and, at the same time, became trapped in an increasingly uncomfortable legal gray area. Now, the government has issued new enforcement guidelines for cannabis businesses in Thailand, with license suspensions, possible revocations, and stricter controls over sales, advertising, reporting, and medical prescriptions, according to The Nation.
The measure was announced by Thailand’s Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine, known as DTAM, on June 22. The new guidelines seek to tighten enforcement of the rules issued by the Public Health Ministry in 2025, when cannabis flower was reclassified as a controlled herb and its sale was limited to the medical framework.
Cannabis Businesses in Thailand: Once a Green Boom, Now a Market Under Watch
The Thai case became central to the global cannabis conversation: the country was the first in Southeast Asia to move forward with such a broad opening. In 2022, Thailand removed cannabis from its list of narcotics, allowing the rapid growth of stores, dispensaries, tourism ventures and agricultural projects linked to the plant.
But that boom arrived without a comprehensive law clearly organizing what could be done, who could sell, under what conditions, and with what limits. In the following years, the government began to step back from the more open model and …
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Author: Camila Berriex / High Times
