One of Thailand’s major fast food chains is promoting its “Crazy Happy Pizza,” topped with a cannabis leaf. It’s legal but won’t get you high. Thailand is the first country in Southeast Asia to remove parts of cannabis from its controlled narcotics list.
Veterans of the backpacker trail, familiar with the legendary pizza parlors of neighboring Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh that offer powerful marijuana as an optional condiment, might feel downright cheated.
In recent years, a kind of middle-ground product has emerged: cannabidiol, or CBD, a chemical found in cannabis that can be processed into what is touted as a cure-all medicine. CBD can be separated out from tetrahydrocannabinol -- THC -- the chemical in cannabis that produces marijuana’s high. Thailand last December became the first country in Southeast Asia to remove specific parts and extracts of cannabis from its controlled narcotics list, and in February this year allowed them to be used in foods and beverages. The amount of THC in the CBD product must not exceed 0.2% of its total weight, virtually eliminating the possibility of getting high.
“We try to get some new ingredients, anything that is in trend, and we use it and we want people to talk about it,” he said.
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