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There are some very basic conditions of humanity that have existed since we have as a species.

One, we are confounded by unintended consequences.

Two, if there's a buck to be made, no law can prevent it.

And three, humans love to get high.

On today's matinee, we bring you a story of all three conditions.

In a special episode from the podcast Underworld,

one of the hosts travels to Nepal,

trekking from Kathmandu and into the Himalayan foothills in search of one of the original,

most mystical and mythologized strains of marijuana, purple haze.

You might have heard of it.

For thousands of years, Nepali farmers grew some of the world's trippiest marijuana.

In Himalayan Valley, so fertile, they were considered sacred.

In the 1960s, Western hippies discovered the stuff,

and then one Jimmy Hendrick song later,

Nepal was suddenly the world's cannabis capital.

But then an international war on drugs, a communist insurgency,

and organized crime all made the story much more complicated.

But complicated stories are what the podcast Underworld is all about,

exposing the secret world of transnational criminal networks

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