The procession will take you past the vegetable and fish markets, restaurants, jewellery and medicinal shops.
And down in the street, there are still the teeming markets, artisan workshops, strange medicinal shops and delicious 24-hour hawker stalls that make George Town one of the last surviving authentic Chinatowns.
Lawsonia inermis medicinal plant was collected from herbal medicine shop and its identity was confirmed using monographs by Mozaffarian (1996).
Air-dried root (600 g) of A. heterotropoides was purchased from Boeun medicinal herb shop, Kyoungdong market (Seoul, South Korea).
The rhizomes of C. longa were purchased from Boeun medicinal herb shop, Kyoungdong market (Seoul, Republic of Korea (ROK)).
In San Jose, medicinal marijuana shops were offering free weed for anyone with an "I voted" sticker, which is probably illegal (but then, under federal law, so is their entire business operation).
What's more, under the terms of the new state law, if L.A. doesn't change its existing rules, all medicinal pot shops in the city's boundaries will be illegal in 2018.
"Here," said Rubén Márquez, a legal resident from Colombia who manages a shop selling medicinal herbs, "it's easier to live, and there are greater opportunities to work".
A total of 37 species distributed among 29 families were reported as having medicinal value by the shop owners.
This coexistence has been undermined by a recent, sudden growth in attaris, shops selling medicinal plants, due in part to the rising cost of imported medicines after the United States financial sanctions introduced in 2012.
