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Sakon Nakhon Province treats Sakon Nakhon as a province of Thailand: its geography, peoples and farming as they bear on the crop, the intelligence reports of the 1980s, the cannabis plan of 2018, the illicit plots cut in Kut Bak in 2019 and 2020, licensed growing and the Thai-medicine formulae after 2019, seizures of cannabis in transit, and the conservation record of the province's two registered lines. The region as a whole is treated at Northeastern Thailand, the range at Phu Phan and the product and its export trade at Thai stick.
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Sources
- Shared with Northeastern Thailand. Stamler and colleagues (1985), the Department of Agriculture registration notice (July 2021), Thansettakij (2022), Matichon (November 2019), Chenrai and colleagues (2022), Jacobson and colleagues (1969), Timsuksai and Rambo (2016), the Department of Medical Sciences release of 2021, Kraisittipanit and colleagues (2025), Charoenchai and colleagues (2023), Watanakul and colleagues (2024), The Nation (2024 and 2025), Thai PBS (February 2019) and the Food and Drug Administration notice page are cited with the same definitions and pinpoints as on that page, where the way each was read is set out.
- The provincial statistical report. The Sakon Nakhon Provincial Statistical Report for 2024 (National Statistical Office, printed 2025) was read in Thai from its PDF text layer. The introductory pages carry roman page numbers from x; the page before x is unnumbered and is cited as [ix]. The population figure is the Department of Provincial Administration figure for 2023 that the report cites. Crop areas on the page are rounded from the report's tables (chapter 11), which give rai to two decimals.
- Thai-language reports. Post Today, Matichon, Krungthep Turakij, Thai PBS, The Standard, Thairath and Naewna were read in Thai; translations of their wording are the page's own. The date of the Krungthep Turakij report of February 2019 comes from the page's metadata, as the report prints none.
- Journals. Kanpluek and colleagues (2014) were read in their introduction, Hongsuwan and colleagues (2022) in full text and Srithat and colleagues (2022) in their abstract.
- GBIF. As it stood on 12 October 2026, the occurrence index held no record of the genus Cannabis with Sakon Nakhon as its province or inside the province's bounds. Three Indiana University sheets mention "Sakon"; their remarks give the seed's country of origin and no collection locality.
Where the sources disagree
- The scale of the 2019 growing. In February 2019 the Rajamangala campus set a target of 15 rai; in March the Thai Traditional Medicine Institute announced about 1,400 rai across the two campuses; in June the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine divided an expected 11 tonnes of fresh cannabis a year among its growers; in December the Rajamangala campus held a licence for 2,000 kilograms and had harvested 241.26 kilograms. The first three are plans and the last an outcome. The page gives all four, each with its date and source.
- Nong Han. Kanpluek and colleagues (2014) give a water surface of about 73.6 km² within a total area of 123 km²; the Matichon column of 2017 gives 123 km² for the lake. The page gives both figures from the first.
- Spelling. The Indiana University records print "Thailand (Sakon Nokhon)"; the page quotes the form as printed.
- The stored province name. Thirty-four accessions store the province as Sakhon Nakhon. The page's tables match that form as well as Sakon Nakhon and Sakon Nakhon Province. One of them, ZOM-THA-NKP-0320250001, stores the district Na Kae and the locality Phiman; Na Kae is a district of Nakhon Phanom.
Not used
- The statements that hang kra rog is the original strain, growing wild on the Phu Phan range since ancient times, in the introduction of Hongsuwan and colleagues (2022) and in Naewna (March 2021), carry no source and are not used. The reason given in March 2019 for choosing the province, that old medical texts name a quality variety there, is on the page as the institute director's statement; the texts are not named in the report.
- The list of four pilot subdistrict health-promoting hospitals in Post Today (26 July 2020) names one in Sakon Nakhon in a form that could not be matched to a village name, and is not used.
- An Infoquest report of 11 February 2021 places a "six-plant" growing model in Sakon Nakhon in its headline and in Buriram in its text, and is not used.
- A 2009 MGR Online report of a raid on cannabis fields on Phu Kai Khia is from Dong Luang district in Mukdahan and is not used here.
- Newspaper statements that Sakon Nakhon or the Phu Phan range is the origin of the Thai stick are not used, as on Northeastern Thailand.