House of Representatives (lower house) Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development Affairs Committee Chairman Yan Linn said that they have consent from the Home Ministry to amend the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law to allow strains of cannabis for industrial hemp farming.

Industrial hemp has less than 0.3% of psychoactive components and over 50 countries in the world are growing the industrial fibre plant but currently all strains of cannabis are designated as narcotic drugs.

The planting time of industrial hemp is just four months and there is high demand as industrial raw material in the world market.

Hemp is used to produce a variety of industrial and commercial products such as chocolate, cancer drugs, car dashboards, and paper with over 5,000 varieties of products and about 57 countries legally growing it.