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Southeast
Asia:
Malaysia
Bans
Marijuana
Magazines
4/28/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/433/censorship.shtml
The Malaysian government
has banned the publication and distribution of three magazines that celebrate
the marijuana culture effective April 13, the Bernama Malaysian News Agency
reported. The venerable "High Times" and its competitors "Cannabis
Culture" (Canada) and "Weed World" (England) are now verboten in Kuala
Lumpur.
In an April 19 statement,
the Malaysian Internal Security Ministry said the magazines threatened
national security and morality and banned them under the country's Control
of Undesirable Publications Act. The ban -- which ironically was
passed in the year 1984 -- covers the import, publication, reproduction,
sale, or possession of the three magazines.
It's not enough that Malaysian
marijuana lovers face arrest and imprisonment for the weed. Now they
also face the prospect of being busted for "possession of High Times."
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