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GsWeb and the Digital Resistance: MoNoRi-Chan’s Act of Defiance
As the smoke clears from the whirlwind shutdown of Grassstation’s original Klong 4 storefront, a new kind of fire has ignited—this time, in the heart of the open-source community.
With Thailand's abrupt policy U-turn toward re-criminalizing recreational cannabis, many in the budding ganja economy were left dazed, scrambling to protect their investments and dreams. Among them, MoNoRi-Chan, the eccentric Laravel developer behind Grassstation’s IT systems, wasn’t about to go quietly.
In response to the government's sudden crackdown/political play, MoNoRi-Chan did the unthinkable: he released GsWeb, the entire codebase for Grassstation's multi-branch web platform, under the irreverent WTFPL license—a bold, uncensored "Do What The F*ck You Want To" license that, in true hacker fashion, says what everyone was thinking.
“Advertising is now illegal? Fine. Let’s make it free software instead,” MoNoRi-Chan posted.
Alongside Grassstation CEO Igq, who cheekily posted on Facebook:
“ใบรับรองแพทย์ไม่พบแพทย์ออกไม่ได้
แต่ใบสั่งจ่ายออนไลน์ขอได้นะจั้บ หมอบอกมา”
(Doctor’s certificate can’t be issued without seeing a doctor. But an online prescription? That’s still fair game.)
It wasn’t just about the tech. It was a statement: you can shut down a store, but you can’t kill an idea—especially not when that idea is hosted on GitHub.
What GsWeb Actually Does
Though it's now legally neutered from advertising any cannabis product in Thailand, GsWeb was an impressive feat of full-stack software engineering. It powered the day-to-day operations of the Grassstation network, offering:
- Multi-branch microsites with real-time menus
- Mobile-optimized location data
- Social/contact integrations (LINE, Facebook, Bluesky, Twitter/X)
- QR payments, including Thai PromptPay, Venmo, and Zelle
- Internal tools for stock, order, payment, and shift management
All now publicly available, for free. All now completely unusable for marketing. But that’s not stopping MoNoRi-Chan—or anyone else savvy enough to fork the code and run it in the underground.
What’s Next? Online Prescriptions?
With the new regulations requiring medical prescriptions and on-site doctors for cannabis sales, the public health bureaucracy thinks it’s playing 5D chess. But MoNoRi-Chan is already writing scripts.
“I gained ฿0 from building this system. But at least I built something.”
That something may soon evolve. As hinted in back-channel group chats and cryptic commit messages, a new phase may be coming: GsRx—a theoretical prescription-ordering portal integrated with licensed clinics or very cooperative doctors.
Only time will tell if this development moves from joke to reality, but in true cyberpunk fashion, one thing is certain: the network lives on.
As Thailand prepares to publish its new cannabis policy in the Royal Gazette, one GitHub repository stands as a relic of a brief, beautiful window of semi-legality—a flame kept alive by those who refuse to let bureaucracy snuff out innovation.
