News:2018-07-17/Policy/sri-lanka-to-replicate-philippine-drug-war-police-state

17 July 2018

Policy

Sri Lanka·

Sri Lanka to 'replicate' Philippine drug-war police state

President Maithripala Sirisena announced Sri Lanka would resume executing drug convicts after a moratorium since 1976, with 19 commuted death sentences to be carried out. A presidential spokesperson explicitly stated the aim to "replicate the success" of Duterte's drug war in the Philippines. The EU, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Canada jointly protested. The article noted Sri Lanka's contradictory cannabis politics: harsh penalties under the 1984 Poisons, Opium, and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance alongside growing Kerala Ganja seizures on the northern coast, while simultaneously Health Minister Senaratne was proposing a 100-acre medicinal export plantation at Ingiriya. The piece highlighted the wave of KG seizures along the island's northern coast and media sensationalism about Maoist guerrilla involvement in the Kerala cannabis trade.

Source: https://globalganjareport.com/node/1566

2018-07-17 Policy Sri Lanka to 'replicate' Philippine drug-war police state President Maithripala Sirisena announced Sri Lanka would resume executing drug convicts after a moratorium since 1976, with 19 commuted death sentences to be carried out. A presidential spokesperson explicitly stated the aim to "replicate the success" of Duterte's drug war in the Philippines. The EU, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, and Canada jointly protested. The article noted Sri Lanka's contradictory cannabis politics: harsh penalties under the 1984 Poisons, Opium, and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance alongside growing Kerala Ganja seizures on the northern coast, while simultaneously Health Minister Senaratne was proposing a 100-acre medicinal export plantation at Ingiriya. The piece highlighted the wave of KG seizures along the island's northern coast and media sensationalism about Maoist guerrilla involvement in the Kerala cannabis trade. https://globalganjareport.com/node/1566