{"id":17286,"date":"2026-01-07T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buddha-plants.com\/governance-that-does-not-exclude-the-weak-why-do-the-ideas-of-king-bhumibol-and-queen-sirikit-resonate-with-the-modern-day-legalization-of-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:28:20","slug":"governance-that-does-not-exclude-the-weak-why-do-the-ideas-of-king-bhumibol-and-queen-sirikit-resonate-with-the-modern-day-legalization-of-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buddha-plants.com\/en\/governance-that-does-not-exclude-the-weak-why-do-the-ideas-of-king-bhumibol-and-queen-sirikit-resonate-with-the-modern-day-legalization-of-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance that does not exclude the weak: Why do the ideas of King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit resonate with the modern-day legalization of marijuana?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe recent legalization and decriminalization of cannabis around the world is not simply a matter of lifting the ban on recreational drugs or creating a new industry. At its core lies a fundamental question: how should the state treat those deemed “weak” or “deviant?” In this context, it is worth noting a certain governance philosophy that was quietly but consistently demonstrated in Thailand in the second half of the 20th century. This was the attitude embodied by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit: “not excluding the weak, but bringing them back into the system.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Northern Thailand during the Cold War: The \"weak\" were always targeted for exclusion<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBetween the 1950s and 1970s, the mountainous region of northern Thailand, centered around Chiang Mai, was an extremely difficult region for the state to handle. It was comprised of hill tribes (such as the Mon and Karen), ambiguous nationality and legal status, labeling them as “illegal” due to poppy cultivation and slash-and-burn agriculture, and wariness of communism and drug trafficking during the Cold War. In many countries, people who met these criteria would have been targeted for “suppression,” “exclusion,” or “forced relocation.” However, King Bhumibol chose not to expel them by force, but to rearrange them.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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King Bhumibol: Designing a Nation to \"Prevent Collapse\"<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat the king did was neither idealize the mountain people as good people nor protect them as victims. \u25cf Treat them as enemies because of illegal crops \u2192 \u2715\u25cf Shift them to a livelihood that does not conflict with the state \u2192 \u25cb\u25cf Force them into the underground economy \u2192 \u2715\u25cf Make them visible within the royal project \u2192 \u25cb This was later institutionalized as the royal project, expanding to alternative crops, infrastructure, distribution, healthcare, and education. The key is that the king did not impose his “righteousness.” What he protected was not the crops, but the position of the people so that they could not be completely cut off from the state.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Queen Sirikit: Keeping \"dignity\" within the system<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tQueen Sirikit’s role, on the other hand, was closer to everyday life. She redefined the handweaving, dyeing, and crafts of hill tribe and rural women, the use of plants as a life skill, and women’s livelihood and pride as knowledge that needed to be protected, rather than as “backward culture” or “symbol of poverty.” These activities, exemplified by the SUPPORT Foundation, could be seen as a clear message that “you are not on the receiving end” rather than as support. This is a philosophy very similar to the emphasis on dignity and patient-centeredness that is seen in modern medicine and welfare.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The Vietnam War brought the United States a reality that could no longer be ignored<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLet us now shift our focus to contemporary America. The Vietnam War posed more questions for American society than simply military defeat. What became visible among returning soldiers was the reality of physical and mental aftereffects, the difficulty of reintegrating into society, and drug use, including cannabis. What is important is that this did not emerge as a “foreign culture” or “fringe deviance,” but as a problem affecting young people and soldiers in the country itself. This experience deeply imprinted in American society the feeling that “prohibition and criminalization alone cannot deal with reality.” This can be seen as one of the psychological and social foundations that led to later drug policy shifts from moralism to institutionalism.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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IdeoloLet us now shift our focus to contemporary America. The Vietnam War posed more questions to American society than simply military defeat. What became visible among returning soldiers was the reality of physical and mental after-effects, the difficulty of reintegrating into society, and drug use, including cannabis. What is important is that this did not emerge as a \"foreign culture\" or \"fringe deviance,\" but as a problem affecting young people and soldiers from the country itself. This experience deeply imprinted in American society the feeling that \"prohibition and criminalization alone cannot deal with reality.\" This can be seen as one of the psychological and social foundations that led to later drug policy shifting from moralism to institutionalism.gical resonance with the hemp legalization movement<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe principles upheld by the modern hemp legalization movement are as follows: * Control over complete prohibition * Institutionalization over criminalization * Protecting dignity over judging users This has a structure strikingly similar to the governance demonstrated by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit in northern Thailand. What they have in common is not “how hemp is evaluated.” Exclusion and undergrounding further damage society, but the very basis for judgment: only by returning hemp to the system can it be controlled and restored.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Read it as resonance, not causation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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