{"id":65925,"date":"2019-01-13T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=65925"},"modified":"2019-01-13T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T08:15:07","slug":"marijuana-legalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/marijuana-legalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Legalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which country recently approved use of marijuana for medical purposes?<br><\/strong> (a) India<br> (b) Canada<br> (c) Thailand<br> (d) Slovenia<br> <strong>Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The military appointed National Legislative Assembly of Thailand legalized usage of marijuana (cannabis) for medical purpose, first country in Southeast Asia to make this law. <\/li><li>The amendment in drug law will allow the use of cannabis and kratom, a locally grown plant used as stimulant and painkiller.<\/li><li>Marijuana can be useful in treating a wide range of conditions, including glaucoma, epilepsy, chronic pain and the side effects of chemotherapy.<\/li><li>With this step Thailand joins the list of countries like Colombia, Canada, California in United States and Britain which allows use of marijuana for medical purposes.<\/li><li>It is worth to mention that recreational use of the drugs remains illegal in Thailand and is subjected to prison terms and fines proportional with the quantities involved.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/led-coalition-syria-withdrawal-begun-190111092622492.html\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/led-coalition-syria-withdrawal-begun-190111092622492.html<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/26\/world\/asia\/thailand-medical-marijuana.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/26\/world\/asia\/thailand-medical-marijuana.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which country recently approved use of marijuana for medical purposes? (a) India (b) Canada (c) Thailand (d) Slovenia Answer: (c) Related facts: The military appointed National Legislative Assembly of Thailand legalized usage of marijuana (cannabis) for medical purpose, first country in Southeast Asia to make this law. The amendment in drug law will allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":65928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-65925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}