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Cannabis coffee: Indonesia's Sharia stronghold sidesteps drug ban

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Marijuana coffee is a hit with locals in Indonesia's Aceh province and buyers in other parts of the Southeast Asian archipelago, who pay 1.0 million rupiah ($75) for a kilo of it. But this is risky business in Aceh, where even drinking alcohol or kissing in public can earn you a painful whipping under its strict Islamic law.

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