News:2023-04-26/Report/frontier-myanmar-reports-a-kndf-protected-cannabis-dispensary-in-demoso-whose-owner-grows-about-100-acres

NewsReport26 April 2023

Frontier Myanmar reports a KNDF-protected cannabis dispensary in Demoso whose owner grows about 100 acres

Frontier Myanmar reported on Myanmar cannabis businesses setting up in Thailand after its decriminalisation in 2022 and on a dispensary in Myanmar. The dispensary, first called Moe Ma Kha and then De Culture Cannabis, opened in mid-2022 under the protection of the Karenni National Defence Force (KNDF) in rural Demoso Township, Kayah State. It offers about 20 strains. Its owner, Ko Win Oo, a KNDF fighter, said he was encouraging local opium farmers to grow cannabis instead of poppies and was growing cannabis that season on about 100 acres of land, but that finding a larger market was a challenge. The report said that neither the National Unity Government nor the ethnic armed organisations allied to it had publicly supported legalising the drug.

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PlaceKayah StateMyanmar

Growing areaDemoso

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2023-04-26 Report Frontier Myanmar reports a KNDF-protected cannabis dispensary in Demoso whose owner grows about 100 acres Frontier Myanmar reported on Myanmar cannabis businesses setting up in Thailand after its decriminalisation in 2022 and on a dispensary in Myanmar. The dispensary, first called Moe Ma Kha and then De Culture Cannabis, opened in mid-2022 under the protection of the Karenni National Defence Force (KNDF) in rural Demoso Township, Kayah State. It offers about 20 strains. Its owner, Ko Win Oo, a KNDF fighter, said he was encouraging local opium farmers to grow cannabis instead of poppies and was growing cannabis that season on about 100 acres of land, but that finding a larger market was a challenge. The report said that neither the National Unity Government nor the ethnic armed organisations allied to it had publicly supported legalising the drug. https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-cannabis-entrepreneurs-plant-seeds-in-thailand/ Myanmar Kayah State Demoso