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What, if anything, the participants hash out in Geneva will be closely watched as far away as Aska Aja, another Piaroa village upriver from Uruka Amahuaja. There, Royero recently met with a shaman, Jacinto Martinez, 62, whose wife had died hours earlier from an operable eye tumor. The tribe had no access to a surgeon--nor money to pay one. For years, Martinez has helped scientists identify plants near Aska Aja that treat everything from skin rashes to diarrhea. What he would like in return, he says, waving away flies from his wife's wrapped corpse, is some...
...DISH The dusting marked a trail for the local chapter of the Hash House Harriers, a global group that says it's a "drinking club with a running problem." Lead runners mark a trail, the rest follow...
...myself and able to go to "grown-up" events already, I was initially apprehensive as to what this kiddiefest would be like. The event oozed youth, attracting a mini media frenzy and plenty of corporate sponsors. Meanwhile, other young entrepreneurs at the festival were touting their own clandestine merchandise: hash scones or vodka at $6 a shot. Despite the odd misdemeanor like this, organizers and security managed to successfully hold off the chaos you'd expect at a teenage gathering. Officially, the only "purple haze" you'd find here was a summer berry-based smoothie...
...nation's affluent business and political classes aren't averse to a discreet puff. Indeed, France's cannabis culture has become so prevalent that the use of the word petard is as likely to refer to a joint as to its more literal meaning, "firecracker." Myriad nicknames for hash and marijuana have passed into the modern lexicon, such as chichon, beuh, teuteu, matos and teuch - the latter being an approximate phonic reversal of the borrowed English word most commonly used for hashish (hint: bulls produce...
...clandestine market worth an estimated $1.2 billion per year, in the same way that it regulates and taxes sales of alcohol. Average monthly budget for cannabis smokers runs from $110 to $205, with rising volumes of sales over the past decade having driven street prices per gram of hash down by 30% to $5.50, and of cannabis down...