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Plant of the Month: Third Place Winner
The Nepal government 40million$ to make it illegal, 1974 was when the usa govnmt paid them. There used to be legal hash shops in Kathmandu, where you could try the finest hashish in the world, safely and casualy. Once the hash wash made illegal , that put it in the hands of street thugs/heroin addicts. Now the protocol of the unsuspecting tourist , is to walk down the street in Thamel, kathmandu, and get haggled by these heroin dealers trying to sell all of the westerners hash and heroin. Mind you it's not even the "nice" opium that once laced the infamous"TEMPLE BALLS".
Now when a tourist wants hashish, you either have to know a saint, baba, or sadhu or you have to have get it off the streets from the dealers. Once there were around 30 hash shops in Kathamandu all striving to deal the best hash in the world, you could enter into the shop where they had hookahs set up and you could taste many varieties. Safely at your leisure. The signs on the shop once depicted the "quality" and committment of the shop owner.
Perhaps it was too many foreigners smuggling it outa the country into the USA that made the US govnmt bribe the KING OF NEPAL with 40million dollars in 1974. Or maybe it was the Nepalese soccer team that finally got busted trying to smuggle hash into America for the King. But , we all know that when you put the market into the hands of the "BLACK MARKET" bad things will follow.
Now, there must ly a hundred "westerners" in Nepalese Jails waiting for someone to bail them out with some sort of HUGE bribe. gone are days of safely obtaining what was once one of the proudest markets for the Nepalese, the Notorious TEMPLE BALLS. Sure one can still get hash, but it's surely isn't of the quality and casual venue it once used to be.
I am fortunate enough to live in Nepal part time, as an American, with a Nepali wife and a family with a house that we own. I am proud to boast my relations with Nepal , still the politics of 1974 perpetaully make me wonder about the years of the Legal Hashish.
Perhaps one day , like alcohol, this benign substance shall make it into the spot light again and Nepal will regurgitate it's once precious "TEMPLE BALL". Until then, happy hash hunting in Nepal, be careful, and please whatever you do, DO NOT SMUGGLE HASH OUT OF THE COUNTRY!
Now when a tourist wants hashish, you either have to know a saint, baba, or sadhu or you have to have get it off the streets from the dealers. Once there were around 30 hash shops in Kathamandu all striving to deal the best hash in the world, you could enter into the shop where they had hookahs set up and you could taste many varieties. Safely at your leisure. The signs on the shop once depicted the "quality" and committment of the shop owner.
Perhaps it was too many foreigners smuggling it outa the country into the USA that made the US govnmt bribe the KING OF NEPAL with 40million dollars in 1974. Or maybe it was the Nepalese soccer team that finally got busted trying to smuggle hash into America for the King. But , we all know that when you put the market into the hands of the "BLACK MARKET" bad things will follow.
Now, there must ly a hundred "westerners" in Nepalese Jails waiting for someone to bail them out with some sort of HUGE bribe. gone are days of safely obtaining what was once one of the proudest markets for the Nepalese, the Notorious TEMPLE BALLS. Sure one can still get hash, but it's surely isn't of the quality and casual venue it once used to be.
I am fortunate enough to live in Nepal part time, as an American, with a Nepali wife and a family with a house that we own. I am proud to boast my relations with Nepal , still the politics of 1974 perpetaully make me wonder about the years of the Legal Hashish.
Perhaps one day , like alcohol, this benign substance shall make it into the spot light again and Nepal will regurgitate it's once precious "TEMPLE BALL". Until then, happy hash hunting in Nepal, be careful, and please whatever you do, DO NOT SMUGGLE HASH OUT OF THE COUNTRY!
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