{"id":47658,"date":"2016-07-30T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T23:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=47658"},"modified":"2016-07-30T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T23:28:04","slug":"health-ministry-say-no-to-risdas-ketum-for-export-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/health-ministry-say-no-to-risdas-ketum-for-export-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry Say No To Risda&#8217;s Ketum For Export Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Ministry does not agree with a suggestion by the Rubber Industries Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) for the government to allow smallholders in the country to plant ketum to increase their income.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160727_202101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-47583\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160727_202101-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160727_202101\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>Its minister, Datuk Seri Dr S.Subramaniam said ketum had the characteristics of drugs like cannabis and heroin which could bring negative effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not support what has been proposed by RISDA that ketum be planted for medicinal use even though there is a big demand from several pharmaceutical companies in America and Europe,\u201d he told reporters at Segamat yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Subramaniam was speaking at a ceremony to hand over Digital Operations Uniforms (P.O.V) for the People\u2019s Volunteer Corps (RELA) and Hari Raya gathering organised by RELA Segamat. &#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Ministry does not agree with a suggestion by the Rubber Industries Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) for the government to allow smallholders in the country to plant ketum to increase their income. Its minister, Datuk Seri Dr S.Subramaniam said ketum had the characteristics of drugs like cannabis and heroin which could bring negative effects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":47585,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":360,"height":270,"file":"2016\/07\/ketum.jpg","filesize":84588,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":47581,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ketum.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}