Saturday, 13 Mar 2021 11:08 AM MYT
Bartenders serve cannabis sparking craft soda during the ‘360 Cannabis & Hemp for the People’ expo in Buriram province, Thailand March 5, 2021. — Reuters pic
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BANGKOK, March 13 — If the bets of Thailand’s farmed cannabis promoters pay off, Thais could soon be chowing down on hempburgers, washed down with cannabis-derived drinks, before freshening up with shower gel and toothpaste infused with a compound from the plant.
Far from a pipe dream, a wide range of Thai firms are investing in cannabis, seeking to be first movers in a budding multi-billion dollar industry in Asia after Bangkok legalised use of hemp and cannabidiol (CBD), a compound that doesn’t create a ‘high’, in consumer goods earlier this year.