NEPAL | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [655] | View Smaller Image
A Tibetan refugee smoking hashish. Today, approximately 20,000 Tibetans refugees reside in Nepal. The vast majority of this population arrived before 1989. On the other hand, Cannabis has been grown in Nepal, in both wild and cultivated varieties, for an extremely long time. Even Sadhus, the mystics of Hinduism, are permitted to smoke hashish as part of their religious practice.