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Sri Lanka to legalise cannabis

The Australian

Wednesday 12 May 2004

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SRI Lanka plans to lift a ban on growing cannabis and begin government
cultivation of the plant, which is a key ingredient in traditional
medicine, a minister was quoted saying today.

Indigenous Medicine Minister Tissa Karaliyadde said he hoped to introduce a
bill in parliament to allow practitioners of herbal medicine known as
ayurveda to grow at least five plants each.

The state itself hopes to start cultivation and land has already been
earmarked for the pilot project, The Island newspaper quoted Karaliyadde
saying.

Despite an official ban on cannabis in Sri Lanka, it is easily available on
the clandestine market both for traditional healers and smokers.

 

 

 

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