Where does India stand on the marijuana map of the world?
When I lived in India in 1992 and 1997, I procured marijuana in all places I stayed. I bought a lovely kilo of cannabis from my Ayurvedic doctor in Trivandrum in 1992 that came from the Western Ghats in Kerala. In Mysore I bought cannabis from the tuk-tuk wallahs. In Bangalore, I smoked with the first generation of silicon computer ‘nerds’ just starting in those days. In Rajasthan, I purchased excellent charas from Manali in Pushkar, Jaisalmer, and Jodhpur. A lot of the enjoyment of cannabis is the setting and the situation. I loved smoking by the ocean in Kovalam, or at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, or in the desert sands beyond Jaisalmer. You’ve been to India twice; do you plan to launch a similar campaign here? I have not left Canada since 1998. The US government would arrest me anywhere in the world and have me brought to the US in chains. They are now seeking to extradite me to the US where they want to imprison me for my activism. I hope one day the US will rescind the indictment a
