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A woman cuts herbs for use in the making of Ayurvedic medicine at the Sri Lankan Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation in the Navinna suburb of Colombo
25 Sep 2008
Source: Reuters
 
A woman cuts herbs for use in the making of Ayurvedic medicine at the Sri Lankan Ayurvedic Drugs Corporation in the Navinna suburb of Colombo September 25, 2008. Sri Lanka's government wants to grow its own marijuana. Facing a lack of the fresh weed for use in traditional Ayurvedic medical preparations, the government ministry responsible wants to be excepted from laws that have made marijuana illegal on the Indian Ocean island since the 1890s.REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe(SRI LANKA)
REUTERS/BUDDHIKA WEERASINGHE


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