PENANG: Ganja addicts, faced with a short supply of the drug, are now turning to psychotropic pills and codeine-based cough mixture.
Some of the more “creative” addicts have resorted to brewing ketum leaves to drink to get their “high.” The ketum also known as biak, which has characteristics similar to cannabis, grows wild by the riverbanks in Kedah and Perak.
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