What changed
Cannabis is medicine.
Medicine needs a prescription.
Cannabis is now a medical product. It can only be sold on a prescription, to the patient named on it. That brings three duties to every shop that wants to keep selling.
A prescription first
A PT33 from a licensed practitioner, for the named patient, before any flower is sold.
No more than prescribed
The amount on the prescription is the limit, across every visit and every shop.
Proof for every gram
Each sale traced to its prescription and batch, and the records kept.
One customer is enough.
The police stop a tourist on the street with flower from your shop. They ask where it came from, and the customer points at your door. There is no prescription behind that sale. That can cost you a heavy fine, and your shop.
The same customer taps “Show to officer” on the digital card on their phone. The officer sees VALID PRESCRIPTION in Thai and English, a live clock, the customer's photo, passport and PT33 number, the grams left and the prescriber. The sale was legal, and it takes a minute to prove.
Carry on as before
- Every sale without a prescription puts the licence at risk
- No records to show at an inspection
Turn the shop into a clinic
- A clinic licence on top of the shop's
- Renovation and an examination room
- A practitioner on salary, every month
- Recruiting again when they leave
Our way: let the shop be the shop.
A clinic prescribes. A herbal shop dispenses what was prescribed. They are two businesses with two licences, and they should stay that way. RH Clinic does the medical part. You keep selling, now with a system that proves you sold it right.
The real difference
Looking compliant
is not being compliant.
A sign on the wall, a prescription pad in the drawer and a doctor's name on a contract can all be bought. None of it shows what was actually sold, to whom, and on which prescription.
Looking compliantA pad of blank forms. Filled in at the counter, signed later, or not at all.
Being compliantIssued by a licensed practitioner after a consultation, before anything is sold.
Looking compliantA name on the wall who is rarely in the shop and never sees most customers.
Being compliantA practitioner who sees each request and can decline it or ask a question.
Looking compliantWhoever is standing at the counter. One prescription shared by friends.
Being compliantThe named patient only: QR card, passport details and a face check at every sale.
Looking compliantWhatever the customer asks for. The prescription is a formality.
Being compliantUp to the grams prescribed, across every visit and every shop. The till won't go over.
Looking compliantA notebook or a spreadsheet, tidied up the night before an inspection.
Being compliantEvery gram tied to its PT33 and batch the moment it is sold. Nothing is overwritten.
Looking compliantFlower bought wherever it is cheapest, with no paperwork behind it.
Being compliantOnly batches with an approved COA and GACP can be sold at all.
The numbers have to add up.
Batches in, each with its COA and GACP
Every gram on a prescription from the clinic
Flower counted at every shift close
Paper looks fine until someone compares it with the stock. In RH Thai POS these numbers match every day, because they come from the same records.
When does your licence expire?
Tell us about your shop and your licence, and we will plan the switch with you before it runs out.