A luxury Thai resort is offering Asia’s first cannabis retreat

[harrybarracuda]

A resort on a Thai island has announced a new collaboration with so-called “global cannabis brand” Kanha to offer weed-enhanced treatments to its guests.

Doctors and chemists have developed “an array of bespoke therapies” for the resort, known as the Beach Samui, according to a press releaseby Kanha’s parent company, the Californian marijuana producer Sunderstorm. The treatments, which involve edible cannabis products sold under the Kanha label, claim to ensure “the highest standards of safety and efficacy” and purport to be part of “a continued commitment to the therapeutic potential of cannabis in a safe, controlled environment.”

The marijuana-based treatments now on offer at the Beach Samui include what the press release describes as “immersive bathing rituals, sound healing, infused culinary experiences, guided meditation, vibrational therapies, IV infusions, breathwork, movement, fitness and in-depth cannabinoid education sessions.”

To ensure guests don’t bite off more than they can chew, pharmacists are on site to ensure that the treatments align with the “wellness goals, preferences and tolerance levels” of participants.

The resort’s cannabis programme comes amid a flip-flopping attitude to the drug on the part of the Thai authorities.

Thailand decriminalised the plant for medicinal use in 2018 and then recreational use in 2022, but authorities are now set to institute harsh new regulations on the recreational side of this billion-dollar industry by the end of 2024. Under the new law, Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew told Reuters in February, “cannabis will be a controlled plant.”

Illegal shops will be shut down, home-grown cannabis discouraged, and sharp fines or even jail terms imposed on those who use cannabis recreationally, participate in marketing it in any way, farm without a licence or trade in the substance without a permit.

A luxury Thai resort is offering Asia’s first cannabis retreat

[Seekingasylum]

Decades ago my father transited Thailand en route to boarding a cruise liner back to Europe departing Laem Chabang. He overnighted at the Royal Cliff Pattaya, the best hotel at that time circa 1974.

He told me on checking in he and my mother settled into their room and investigated the facilities. Typically, there was a Gideon Bible placed in the bedside table but underneath was an interestingly typed menu informing the reader of a list of services that could be obtained upon contact with the lobby concierge should he and my mother be interested in the diverse sexual activities offered thereby.

Sleaze is in the Thai blood but money grubbing is the driver.

[taxexile]

having known that, how strange then that you should choose to settle here.

the fact is sleaze is in everybodys blood. the forbidden, the delightful, the seductive, temptation pulling you in. its human nature, the thais understand this and are not as judgemental, "holier than thou" or hypocritical about it as christian and islamic societies are.

[cyrille]

having known that, how strange then that you should choose to settle here.

1964: Dad tells an impressionable SA that there are diverse sexual services offered in Pattaya.

2004: SA finally purchases his retirement home in Pattaya. He moves there from his billet in Bangkok, equidistant from Nana Plaza and Soi Cowboy though it is.

The fulfillment of a lifelong (and rather damp) dream.

[DrWilly]

That would probably show that SA is as impressionable as backspin.

[cyrille]

That would probably back SA as impressionable as backspin.

Umm...what?

[taxexile]

as i said before, the oaf is illiterate.

[DrWilly]

Slight typo, but feel free to white knight for SA if it helps you feel better about yourself