Talk:Southern Sri Lanka

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Page scope

Southern Sri Lanka treats the cannabis growing region of the dry south-eastern lowlands of Sri Lanka, which holds the Udawalawe and Yala-Lunugamvehera growing areas: the region's climate, the history and law of cannabis in Sri Lanka as they bear on it, and its enforcement record. Raid-by-raid detail belongs on the two growing-area pages.

Data verification

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Discussion

Sources

• National history and law. The 1675 Dutch ban and the 1895 British prohibition are given by Kalpani and colleagues (2022), who cite secondary works (Weliange 2017; APSA 2019) that were not located; the article attributes the dates to them. The licensing rule is taken from the consolidated Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance on the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board's site, whose date of consolidation is not stated.
• UNODC (2005). The Sri Lanka chapter of the South Asia: Regional Profile has no title page; its title is taken from the publication's path on unodc.org. Its 500 ha figure is attributed there to Sri Lanka's annual reports questionnaire for 2003.
• Policy since 2023. The 2023 and 2025 statements are reported in Ada Derana and the Daily Mirror; neither places the licensed cultivation in this region.
• Arrests. District figures for 2024 are taken from map 3 of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board's 2025 handbook; arrests count possession and trade as well as cultivation.

What the sources do not cover

• No peer-reviewed or government source read names Yala, Lunugamvehera, Udawalawe or Thanamalwila as cannabis-growing places; the national sources speak only of the dry zones of the Eastern and Southern provinces.
• No source gives the growing season in the region.