The Thai press were getting stuck into Anutin with claims that someone had "overdosed" on the drug after suffering tightness of the chest.
This set Anutin off on a tirade as he defended his policy. It was in his Bhumjaithai party's manifesto at the election in 2019 and has been his own particular hobby horse for years.

He laid into the press for bringing up the subject now suggesting it was being used as an unfair means to attack the government and he knew why that was being done.

"Why bring up the overdose issue now?," he stormed. "Why not before? What's the reason? You can overdose on anything if it is misused, even paracetamol".

Asked if it was political he told the press to evaluate and analyze that for themselves.

ASEAN NOW notes that claims about several people being admitted to hospital after taking cannabis came from the new Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt.

He also alleged that a 51 year old man died from heart failure after "overdosing on cannabis". City Hall said it was heart failure, NOT an overdose.
US authorities say people cannot overdose on weed and there have been no such cases.
Mr Chadchart was in the government of political adversary Yingluck Shinawatra.

nemo » Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:06 am

I have known a couple of people who would get violent vomiting if they smoked it.