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RE: Sadhus - The stoned Holy Men of Nepal

in #travel7 years ago

Awesome!

Fun hash fact

Hash was totally legal in Nepal until the '70s. You could buy it in government run hash shops.

Then Richard Nixon bribed the Nepalese government with something like $50 million in foreign aid, to make it illegal.

Why? The US government was afraid of all the young Americans going to Nepal to get stoned, they wanted to make it impossible to smoke anywhere in the world.

So Nepal made hash illegal -- except on very certain occasions, or for sadhus.

That doesn't mean it's not available.

When I was walking along a certain river in a certain holy city on the Indian subcontinent, a young guy came up to me:

"Psst. How many kilos do you want?"

I sort of did a double take and asked him what he was selling.

"Hash."