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Sri Lankan Ministry Wants 4000 Kg Of Marijuana

Javno.hr, Croatia

Sunday 05 Oct 2008

The Ministry of Indigenous Medicine wants to be excepted from laws making cannabis illegal on the island and harvest a crop.

A Sri Lankan ministry wants to go against the country's own laws and harvest 4,000 kilograms of marijuana a year.

The Ministry of Indigenous Medicine wants to be excepted from laws making cannabis illegal on the island and harvest a crop to use in traditional Ayurvedic medical preparations.

Ayurveda is a traditional practice using herbs and natural remedies. Ayurveda practitioners outnumber western trained doctors in Sri Lanka.

Asoka Malimage, spokesperson for the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine said: "At the moment [practitioners] are getting some stocks from the courts of law, from illegal stocks raided by police."

But these tend to be of low quality, according to Dr Dayangani Senasekara of the Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurvedic Research Institute.

He said: "You can't get the fresh juice from old cannabis. What we get now is the powdered form and it's not effective."

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