BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS

It is recorded that various agricultural items produces and products were exported by Sri Lanka in history and many of the agricultural items were rice and cinnamon, and other items, I never heard or read Sri Lanka had exported cannabis for making money or to increase export revenue. The report of Dudley Seers in late 1960s presented a Matching Employment Expectation and Opportunities a Program action for Sri Lanka analytically details the importance of non-traditional exports such as small agricultural products, Seers never advised exporting illicit drugs.  

The amount desired for earning from the export of cannabis could be earned by the enhancement of productivity of current exports, why Sri Lanka wants to gain a bad name exporting or encouraging tourists to consume cannabis. Sri Lanka has a good name as a country that respects religious values and why the government policy makers encourage to burn the hand when there are many tools to prevent such accidents.

What is the estimated revenue from the export of cannabis and the domestic consumption of tourists? Cannabis may be a medicinal plant, this only know scientists and when we were in primary schools understood it was an illicit drug, which creates problems to mental balance of people when it smoked.  The security environment of Sri Lanka proved that cannabis cannot grow protectively without going in hands of addicts. 

People of Sri Lanka are well known that no ladders should make for monkeys and why responsible cabinet ministers in Sri Lanka encourage this type of illicit work?