{"id":14901,"date":"2025-06-27T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2025-06-27T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:31:34","slug":"thailands-weed-wild-west-faces-new-rules-as-smuggling-to-uk-rises-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/2025\/06\/27\/thailands-weed-wild-west-faces-new-rules-as-smuggling-to-uk-rises-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s &#8216;weed wild west&#8217; faces new rules as smuggling to UK rises | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe title=\"Thailand&#039;s &#039;weed wild west&#039; faces new rules as smuggling to UK rises | BBC News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KdqD3bYYIkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market.<\/p>\n<p>Its government has approved new measures that went into effect on Wednesday restricting the sale of the drug to those with a doctor&#8217;s prescription, in the hope of helping regulate an industry some describe as out of control.<\/p>\n<p>The south-east Asian nation&#8217;s public health minister has also said that consumption of marijuana will be criminalised again, although it&#8217;s unclear when that could happen.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the drug was decriminalised in 2022, there has been a frenzy of investment. There are now around <\/p>\n<p><!-- Video Blogster Pro --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market. Its government has approved new measures that went into effect on Wednesday restricting the sale of the drug to those with a doctor&#038;#8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14903,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions\/14903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/match-gakuen.jp\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}