Saturday, 27. September 2008
Topic: DRUGS - on September 27, 2008 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Government want to grow own dope
It may be classified as a class B drug in Britain, but the Sri-Lankan government is thinking about growing their own marijuana.
Cannabis has been illegal in Sri-Lanka since the 1890's but an alternative medicine group want exemption to grow it.
The weed is used in many traditional Ayurvedic medical preparations in the country and The Ministry of Indigenous Medicine has broached a plan to grow 4,000kg a year of the plant.
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