3,021 Thai Cannabis Shop Licences End on 31 December

Thailand has been debating what happens to its cannabis shops for a year. Almost nobody has published the calendar. The Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM) does, in machine-readable form, behind its Medical Cannabis GIS dashboard. Verdex read the feed on 29 September 2026 and counted.

The expiry calendar: three year-ends

The map shows a wall of year-end dates rather than a spread, and the feed does not say why. About 100 active shops carry an expiry date that is already past or an obvious typo (years such as 0007 or 0226), and 13 have none recorded.

Where the shops are, and who renews first

Chonburi has the largest share of its shops (39%) expiring this year, ahead of Bangkok at 34% and Phuket at 27%. Surat Thani is the reverse: 46% of its shops run to 2028. The map does not split islands from mainland, so Samui cannot be read separately.

What renewal now requires

Ministerial Regulation No. 2 B.E. 2569, gazetted on 30 April 2026, applies to renewal applications (existing licences run to their expiry). A shop must show a qualifying business credential, DTAM-trained staff during all opening hours and an odour and smoke elimination system. For a licensee previously suspended for breaching health ministry notifications, Article 11 tells DTAM to consider not renewing. The details are in our guide to what B.E. 2569 requires.

The cabinet-approved bill, covered in our September report, would let existing licences run to expiry, so the December cohort tests the rules before any law passes. Shop counts by province are in this breakdown. Shop-side compliance is in our guides to Bangkok shops and Phuket; the current visitor rules are in Thailand cannabis rules for tourists.