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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.

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.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      531·
      10 months ago

      Disposable vapes do cause harm though, regardless of what’s in them

      Those should be restricted

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      292·
      10 months ago

      Sure; that’s a container that is unnecessary and a problem in itself. It’s contents are not the issue.

    • Uranium3006@kbin.social
      20·
      10 months ago

      that’s just ewaste. at least reuse the battery! also every place that sells them should required to have a bin you can drop off your used carts in for recycling.

    • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
      234·
      10 months ago

      They cause an incredible amount of e-waste and are frequently targeted at children.

      • Psychodelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        510·
        10 months ago

        Won’t someone please think of the children!!!

        Seriously though, why not just support regulating them and allowing only reusable vapes instead of supporting a ban which only results in a black market?

        • RelentlessArts@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Has this happened anywhere? My country has talked about banning disposables and only disposables. It makes too much money from vaping to ban it totally.

      • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38·
        10 months ago

        How is it much different than disposable batteries?

        Not saying there aren’t better options. But seems like it’s a weird hill to die on

        • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Lithium (and other materials that go into common rechargable batteries in vapes) are rare earth minerals that could be used for other much more important uses whereas the materials in non-rechargable batteries are less useful or rare. Not all vapes use lithium but it’s common, and using it just once is a particularly wasteful use of a valuable resource, along with other hazards that come from dumping it in landfill.

          Making a vape with a (user) rechargable battery that has a decent amount of re-uses isn’t that hard, so these single-use vapes really are just pointless.

          But yeah, disposable batteries in general aren’t great either, and I avoid them as much as possible my self.