Recreational Users Test Limits of Thailand's Hazy Medical-Marijuana Rollout

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Thailand is the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis.Photo: Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images

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Feliz Solomon

BANGKOK—On a recent Friday night at Tortuga, Art and Weird Café, assistant manager Gus Maneerak slid a pair of chopsticks into a jar and plucked out a few choice chunks of cannabis.

“We like to keep it traditional around here,” he said, using the ubiquitous Asian utensil to weigh out a gram of Beast Mode, one of almost a dozen varieties on offer at the venue, a popular hangout for university students who like to smoke and play board games, or just zone out to music.

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