He said there were around 400,000 drug users in the country, which has a population of 22 million. “We need to reduce demand while keeping up detections,” he said .

Sri Lanka’s rupee closed at 301.58/70 to the US dollar Thursday, in the spot market Thursday down from 301.40/50 to the dollar, a day earlier while bond yields were flat.

Customs officers say a 21-year-old British woman was stopped with 101 pounds of kush — a synthetic drug containing powerful opioids — packed in two suitcases.

Sri Lanka's customs authorities arrested on Friday a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country's main international airport, an official said.

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He said there had been a massive increase in drugs coming via Bangkok into Sri Lanka. "This has been a real nuisance." Ms Culley could face up to 20 years in jail or life imprisonment if found guilty.