It is not uncommon for Muslim women to be involved with drug trafficking in Sri Lanka, especially in the heroin trade, as several Muslim women were connected to the historic heroin seizure on December 31, 2018, stemming from a previous heroin bust a few weeks earlier involving a Muslim woman.

Now a 24-year-old Iranian woman has been arrested by the Police Narcotics Board (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) airport in Colombo, with 400g (0.9 lbs) of Kush cannabis tightly wrapped inside plastic bags concealed in the false bottom of her suitcase. On her trip from Iran through Doha, Qatar, while she was trying to smuggle the drugs into Sri Lanka, she was detained by officials early on the morning of January 31, 2019, who searched her suitcase.

Kush cannabis is known to be a more expensive drug in Sri Lanka, as it is purer, with a high concentration of THC, while the cheaper Kerala Ganja is typically imported from Kerala, India. Kush cannabis gets its name from the Kush valley in Northern India, although both types of drug are grown inside Sri Lanka. Kerala Ganja has come under scrutiny from officials, because it is often laced with harmful chemicals including insecticides, formaldehyde and even shoe polish or heroin, in order to make the drug seem more potent.

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