Weed remedies

Re: “Flaws in weed policy” & “Take the medical path”, (BP, May 30).

While I would probably not have voted for Pita Limjaroenrat, he is inheriting a cannabis policy that clearly won’t work and makes Thailand look poor on the international stage.

I would suggest that should Mr Pita become prime minister, he considers converting some of the weed entrepreneurs to pharmacists who prescribe only to patients with a medical certificate and a script from a licensed Thai physician.

And that the remaining dispensaries/ pharmacies are overseen by a senior Thai doctor who reports to a national reporting system.

Another idea is that government financial support and vocational retraining should be considered for retailers and manufacturers of cannabis products.

Some no doubt do not suit the purely “medical benefit environment” for which decriminalisation was intended.

To conclude, while Mr Pita may not yet have concise answers, many people feel that Thailand’s current cannabis policy has rarely served the country.

It speaks well of Mr Pita, as well as the MFP, that they are starting to realise that mistakes might have been made.

While I feel badly for some establishments which may go out of business, many cannabis producers in the USA are now suffering the same fate as society learns to separate those with medical needs from “deadheads” in the school zone. JASON A JELLISON