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Underworld Special - On The Hunt for Himalayan Purple Haze in Nepal

2023/2/21
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Ben Hartman
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Dipesh
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Joseph
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Kanak Malidixit
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Madan
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Rajiv Kathle
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旁白: 尼泊尔大麻，特别是Purple Haze，拥有悠久的历史和文化意义，曾是重要的经济作物和嬉皮士文化的中心。然而，由于美国发起的禁毒战争，尼泊尔政府被迫禁止大麻种植，导致了严重的经济和社会问题，包括贫困、毛主义叛乱以及毒品泛滥。如今，尼泊尔正努力推动大麻合法化，以期重振经济，改善民生。 Dipesh: 尼泊尔的大麻品质极高，但需要找到合适的种植地。大麻对他来说是救命稻草。 Madan: 种植大麻需要用心呵护，与植物建立联系。 Kanak Malidixit: 大麻是南亚文化和宗教的一部分，其历史悠久。尼泊尔的禁毒政策对经济、旅游业和社会稳定造成了严重的负面影响，而西方国家却在逐步合法化大麻，这是一种文化殖民主义。 Joseph: 他讲述了自己吸毒成瘾的经历以及他如何戒毒，并致力于推动大麻合法化，认为大麻可以缓解病人的痛苦，并改善尼泊尔人民的生活。 Rajiv Kathle: 大麻合法化面临诸多挑战，需要谨慎推进，确保利益公平分配。 Ben Hartman: 大麻市场日益饱和，需要新的产品和市场策略才能在竞争中脱颖而出。 当地农民: 大麻是重要的经济来源，但他们面临着警方的威胁和贿赂。他们希望大麻合法化，改善生活，但缺乏对市场价格的了解。 当地店主: Freak Street已经改变，不再是嬉皮士文化的中心。他们希望大麻合法化，但担心被滥用。他们希望外国游客能够再次来到这里。

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Nepal's cannabis history dates back to ancient times, with its cultivation in the Himalayan foothills. The 1960s brought Western hippies to Kathmandu, making Nepal the world's cannabis capital. However, under pressure from the Nixon administration's War on Drugs, Nepal's king banned the drug, leading to economic hardship and a brutal Communist uprising.

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For thousands of years, Nepali farmers grew some of the world’s trippiest marijuana, in Himalayan valleys so fertile they were considered sacred. In the 1960s western hippies flocked to capital city Kathmandu, and divined wisdom at the thick end of a hash pipe. Nepal was suddenly the world’s cannabis capital.

Then Richard Nixon’s White House launched the War on Drugs, and pressured Nepal’s young king to ban the drug. Cops sent the hippies packing, and torched farmers’ cash crops. The result? Poverty, a black market in hard drugs—and a brutal Communist uprising that ripped through rural valleys like wildfire.

Today, though, Nepal is poised to legalize weed once more. Sean took a trip from Kathmandu into the Himalayan foothills in search of OG Purple Haze with two former heroin addicts—and got way more than he bargained for.

Sound design, scoring and production by the ever-brilliant Dale Eisinger.

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