Shops and retail
Can a licensed shop sell hash, rosin, vapes or concentrates?
Thailand Cannabis Report · Reefers Club Co., Ltd. · Last checked 31 October 2026
Walk into many Thai dispensaries and you will see hash, rosin, vape pens and gummies next to the flower. A licence on the wall does not mean every product on the shelf is covered by it. For a shop owner, the gap between the two is one of the biggest risks in the business.
What a flower licence covers
A shop's licence is a controlled-herb sale licence under the Thai Traditional Medicine Wisdom Act. Since the second controlled-herb notification of November 2022, the controlled herb is the flower, raw or processed. Since 26 June 2025, every flower sale needs a PT.33 prescription and stock from a certified source. Verified
Where each product sits
- Hash and rosin: concentrated resin, on the extracts track. An extract above 0.2% THC by weight is a Category 5 narcotic. See extracts and the 0.2% THC line.
- Vape cartridges and distillates: extracts by definition. Thailand has also banned the import of e-cigarettes and water pipes since 2014. Verified
- Oils and tinctures: extracts. Lawful versions exist as licensed, registered products.
- Gummies, chocolates and drinks: foods. They fall under Thai FDA rules, and the rules allow only certain plant parts in food, not the flower. Estimated
- Pre-rolls: flower, so they need the same prescription and certified source as any flower sale.
The licence risk
The penalty guideline announced on 22 June 2026 grades breaches of the controlled-herb rules into 30-day suspensions, 90-day suspensions and revocation. A sale without a prescription is a 90-day suspension. Selling online or allowing smoking on the premises is revocation. Estimated Products outside the licence add a further layer: extract offences fall under the narcotics law, not the licensing rules.
What to do
- Sell only what the licence covers: flower, against a PT.33, from a certified source.
- Keep extract products and food products in their own licensed channels.
- If you are buying a shop, treat extract stock as a liability. See red flags in a Thai cannabis deal.
Section 3 of the report, free to read, sets out the rules every licensed sale rests on.
Sources
- Section 3 of the 2026 report, The rules in force (free to read)
- Thairath, DTAM guideline on administrative orders for cannabis shops, 22 June 2026
- Tilleke & Gibbins, Cannabis and Hemp Business Guide Thailand 2025
- SEATCA, Thailand bans import of water pipes and e-cigarettes, 15 October 2014
This article is market intelligence, not legal, tax or immigration advice. Rules change by notification; check the current text with the relevant authority or Thai counsel before you act.
In short
Can a Thai dispensary sell hash or rosin?
A flower sale licence covers the flower. Hash and rosin are concentrated resin, which is on the extracts track under narcotics law, so the flower licence is not the licence for them.
Are vape pens legal in Thai cannabis shops?
Cannabis vape cartridges are extracts. Separately, Thailand bans the import of e-cigarettes, so vape hardware brings its own problems.
What about edibles?
Foods made with cannabis need Thai FDA rules to be met, and the flower itself cannot be put in a registered food.
What is the risk for the shop?
Extract products can turn a licensing matter into a narcotics matter, and a licence holder found breaking the rules risks suspension or revocation.
Should an investor care?
Yes. Extract stock on the shelves is a liability in a deal, not an asset.
Want the numbers behind this?
This article gives you the argument. The figures, where they come from and how sure we are of each one are in the report.