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Posted
on 21-Jan-02 04:34 AM
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=480
By Joseph R. Pietri, author soon to be released The King Of Nepal,
pjoseph8@qwest.net
Marijuana and hashish had always been legal in Nepal. Nepal being a Hindu country once a year the Nepalese would offer ganja to their Lord Shiva on his birthday Shivrati. It was part of their religion. Very few Nepalese smoked marijuana or hashish and they got quite a chuckle out of the many Westerners who flocked to Nepal to smoke the famed Temple Ball hashish and still do to this day.
You could buy your ganja from the many licensed shops or at your favorite coffee shop. One that I recall was the Cabin Restaurant where you could listen to the latest music from the West and smoke to your heart’s content. The only law against the sacred herb was that you could not export it. If you were caught – let’s say at the airport -- you spent a night in jail paid 1000 rupee fine ($100 USD). The police would then offer to sell you back your hash with a warning that it was illegal to export. Nepal was a Hippie Nirvana. There was no such thing as a Nepalese heroin addict and no opium is grown in Nepal nor is heroin produced there.
In 1973, Richard Nixon -- and his recently created DEA -- paid The King of Nepal (the late King Birendra) 50 –70 million dollars to make marijuana and hashish illegal in Nepal. Overnight he created a criminal society. He made an ordinary thing extraordinary and a huge black market for drugs was created.
50 million 1970 dollars is more than a half billion dollars today and not one penny was spent on the people of Nepal. In fact Nepal is 8 times poorer today and until I spoke about this the Nepalese people had no idea why the sacred Herb was made illegal. Today Nepal has a half million heroin addicts and methadone programs thanks to the Royal family who run the heroin trade in Nepal. The heroin comes overland from Burma through India via the Royal Nepalese Army or by the King’s police. A very low grade of heroin was introduced to the Nepalese (brown sugar). It is smoked in the style called chasing the dragon and is the lowest grade of heroin available in Asia. The chemicals used to process this heroin rots your brain and in the 1980’s it had a devastating effects on the 15-25 year old Nepalese people. I lost many friends.
At the 1984 Olympics in LA the Nepalese soccer team was stopped by customs at LAX with a huge amount of heroin they were carrying for the Royal family.
In 1986 Henry Kissinger and the DEA came to Nepal for a Narcotics conference. Henry and his boys bought two kilos of the famed Double U O Global Double Lion brand Heroin in the Asan Tole market in Kathmandu with Henry’s travelers checks. These two kilos they promptly deposited on the desk of the Chief of Police D. B. Lama and then threatened to cut off all foreign aid to Nepal if something was not done to stop the heroin trade. As a show for Henry Kissinger he had all foreigners arrested that were living in Nepal as well as the Nepalese who were involved in the ganja trade when it was legal.
Hundreds were arrested. Nepalese were tortured into confessions. I managed to slip out of the country. Most foreigners living in Nepal were involved in the antique business and carpets business. A year or so later the Chief of Police himself was arrested for heroin trafficking. He was sacrificed by the Royal family. So he was in jail with all the people he had arrested. He is lucky to be alive.
The Westerners who were arrested bought their way out of jail by paying huge sums. I went back in 1988 and the inquisition was still going on, so my stay was very short. In 1989 I gave up my house in Nepal and have not returned since. Today Nepal not only has heroin but crack cocaine as well. American foreign drug policy ruined Nepal. In Southeast Asia as a whole the prohibition of marijuana and hashish has lead to massive hard drug addiction as it has in our own country.
The Royal family controls the press, so until I spoke out the Nepalese people did not have knowledge of the Nixon 50 million dollar pay off to King Birendra nor the L. A. Olympic heroin scandal. Needless to say I will never be able to return to my beloved Nepal.
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| SB Lal |
Posted
on 21-Jan-02 11:02 AM
Interesting article. Is all the info provided in this article verifiable? If so why doesn't the US government make it public? All that money went into the royal coffers? Nepal is doomed because the rulers suck
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| Taat |
Posted
on 21-Jan-02 11:27 AM
This article is a joke-- yes flowered with some truth but just to promote pot-headism.
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| Destination anywhere |
Posted
on 21-Jan-02 11:34 AM
Everybody knows that royal family doesn't have any interest on progress of Nepal. All they are doing is accumulating worth from each and every possilble ways. Every one knows how low they could go for that. Drug dealing, commissions, selling antique stuffs , bribe...so on... Furthermore incident of June set an example in modern history of this present world...that was a height...How desperate they are to be in power....if we look back in past history very very few such conspiracies can be seen.....
Now it isright time to think for other alternatives. I dont mean that we have to support maoist who are even worse than this. Do you guys have any idea what system would be better for Nepal considering other stuffs like its geograpy, its culture, its limitted source of income, proverty....blah..blah!!
Destination anywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| numb |
Posted
on 22-Jan-02 11:25 PM
whether this news is reliable or not, we have to ask some questions to ourself? are only politicians responsible for the dooming our country, don't u think big forces like king or india are responsible too?
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