Bukit Aman: Laws need to be amended to allow cultivation of ketum


KUALA LUMPUR: Some Acts and procedures need to be amended if the government wants to allow the cultivation of ketum and hemp in the country, says Bukit Aman Narcotics Crime Investigation Department director Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay.

He said among the amendments that needed to be made involved the Poisons Act 1952 because ketum contains psycho-active substances that could be sedative and euphoric, and also to the National Land Code 1965.

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