Following the June 9 announcement about Thailand’s decriminalisation of hashish products, other Asian international locations have warned Thais and foreigners not to deliver Thai weed into their nations. Japan and Indonesia have already made direct bulletins to their respective Royal Thai embassies.
Now Thai embassies in South Korea and Singapore have joined the record to warn travellers from Thailand to not carry marijuana, other cannabis-based products or cannabis extracts by way of their borders. In some Asian international locations they might face a jail time period, and even the death penalty.
The Royal Thai embassy in Seoul has posted a discover on its social media.
“Thai travellers should not carry hashish, hemp or merchandise containing these crops into South Korea.”
“Possession or use of the substances carries a jail time period of as a lot as five years, whereas smuggling hashish or hemp is liable to a jail time period from five years to life imprisonment.”
“Violators shall be deported from South Korea and barred from returning.”
In Singapore, known for draconian penalties for illicit drug use, the Royal Thai Embassy have posted that Thai travellers “must not convey cannabis-based merchandise or cannabis into the city-state”.
Elements and consumption of hashish or hemp can lead to the dying penalty.”
Cannabis in Singapore is currently illegal for recreational functions, but medicinal purposes have been allowed underneath “extraordinary circumstances” in latest times. Possession or consumption can end result in a most of 10 years in jail, with a attainable nice of S$20,000, in addition to caning, underneath the Misuse of Drugs Act.
Similar warnings are now being posted at the Thai/Cambodian border reminding travellers and truck drivers crossing into Cambodia to not carry hashish or cannabis-based merchandise into the nation.
Possession or consumption of cannabis or its products nonetheless draws stiff penalties beneath Cambodian legislation.
Cannabis in Malaysia is legal for medical purposes. Recreational use of cannabis underneath Malaysian legislation offers for a mandatory death penalty for convicted drug traffickers. Individuals arrested in possession of 200 grams (seven ounces) of marijuana are presumed by legislation to be trafficking in drugs.
In line with many south-east Asian countries, possession, distribution, and production of marijuana is officially unlawful in Vietnam, with harsh penalties on the books for contravention of the regulation. Medical marijuana is also not legal.
In the Philippines, underneath RA 9165, hashish is listed as a “dangerous drug and the sale, possession, use, importation, manufacturing, cultivation, among others, of which are prohibited and punishable by fine and imprisonment”.
The Thai embassy in Jakarta issued warnings on June 21 asserting that Thais should not carry hashish or hashish merchandise into Indonesia.
Then the Thai embassy in Japan warned Thais not to carry hashish or cannabis-based products into Japan on June 24, reminding them that severe penalties and jail time apply.
Thailand is the primary nation in Southeast Asia to decriminalise cannabis, eradicating the plant from its class 5 narcotics list. The announcement has left Thai legislators on the again foot with new legal guidelines awaiting debate in the Thai parliament and has sparked a spherical or rollbacks by establishments, politicians and public offices to make clear the broad interpretations.
Meanwhile, on this twilight interval, cannabis merchandise are being freely offered and cottage industries are springing up to benefit from the delays in new laws and prohibitions being enacted..