Ethnobotanical Adventures and Such

BHANG

  • Sep26/08 23:17:19
[Zhayde]Okay, so for the last six days I was staying om a rural mountain village in Nepal. It was pretty cool, getting up early every single morening to cut fodder for the cattle attempting to milk a water buffalo. They have this interestin custom of offereing you this moonshine called  Rakshi, every single time you go to someones house. So everytime I went to visit someone they tried to load me up and get me totally drunk which was fine by me. The stuff tasted pretty good, it was made from distilled millet mash so it was esentiall a very weak whiskey, but it was closer to wine in potency. It tasted like sake. But one of the really funny things was my host "uncle" came up to me one day holding something in his hand and shoved it under my nose and bascially shouted "BHANG!". And for those of you that don't know bhang is the nepali term for weed. And he kept making chillum motions and laughing his ass off so I assumed we were gonna smoke it, but then he gave it to my host mother and I asked him what he was doing with it. He told me its good medicine for the goats, and I said "goats?". Apparently when the goats have diarehha they feed them copious amounts of weed, which stops them up pretty good.  Oh well...
khyberkitsune Oct4/08 16:52:56
[khyberkitsune]Ahh, marijuana. Is there anything it doesn't help?