Footage shows cannabis plants being sold legally at a garden centre in Bangkok, Thailand, today, June 22.

The well-developed marijuana trees are available at the Chatuchak plant market in the Thai capital. Ministers decriminalised the drug this month, with laws allowing residents to grow up to six plants at home.

Under the change in legislature, which came into effect last week, anyone can buy marijuana products and take them home to smoke. It has led to hundreds of stalls and shops springing up around the country openly selling the drug.

Ministers hope the move will boost the country's economy through marijuana's links to agriculture, medicine and tourism.

However, since marijuana's decriminalisation, several people have been admitted to hospital after using the drug. A fifty-one-year-old man later died of heart failure as he suffered chest pain after consumption.

Opponents to the move claim it could cause long-term metal health problems among people who use it regularly, such as cannabis-induced psychosis.

Although recreational use of cannabis or hemp is no longer illegal in Thailand, users can be fined up to 25,000 THB or jailed for up to three months for public nuisance offences connected to using it (576.82 GBP).