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reserve your ad hereNamaste. I was born in Kathmandu, Nepal, and I smoked my first cannabis at the age of 14 in a hash chillum. Growing up in the City of Gods and the capital of ganja cannabis always had a special significance in my life. It basically grew everywhere in the lap of the Himalayas. I have been at the Shivaratri Festival every year since I was a little boy, going to the Pashupatinath Temple and seeing the holy sadhus monks smoking chillum. I can never forget that and the stories of the hippie culture that people all over the world know as the hippie haven Shangri-La. The movies, the stories, and the freak street in Kathmandu. This is one of the few things that the world knows Nepal for. Mt. Everest, the land where Lord Buddha was born, is another one. The 3rd could be the ganja culture we had, which drew many tourists and free thinkers to the land of Shiva in search of Shangri-La
RE- legalize Nepal.
Nepal was the 1st country in the world to have a government-licensed cannabis shop/cafe/hotel. You name it, and it has been in traditional sacramental medicinal use for 1000 years in Hinduism.
The War on Drugs, started by America, put a global ban in 1973. All stores were shut down, and all foreigners were forcefully thrown out of Kathmandu.
We had no drug addicts back then. Now, we have many hard drug users and rehabilitation centers funded by big pharmaceutical companies.
I moved to New York City, in the USA, in 2004, at the age of 18. During my first two years in the United States, I had over 20 different jobs since nothing would match my energy. In 2006, I started into sales and marketing for renewable energy, which was performance-based on commission with money or salary. I loved it. I made a lot of impact on the environment, lowering the carbon footprint by billions, and I traveled to almost 30 different states. Life was a party every day.
I bought cannabis every day even though it was still illegal, but I hardly found any hash in America. In Nepal, we usually smoke hash and then flower. I would tell my American friends about the hash and the cannabis culture we had and the stories of how opium-infused temple ball hashish was very popular and sold in New York City and all over the world back in the 60s and 70s.
I’ve been in sales for almost eight years now as VP for Dimg Consulting, running sales offices nationwide.
After all these years, cannabis has now caught up with the science, and legalization is a hot topic.
In 2012, Mexican American native Mr. Zendo was traveling to Nepal to trek in the Himalayas, where he met a good friend of mine, Mr. Sherpa, who used to live in NYC, and they became good friends. Mr. Zendo was an artist and a cannabis enthusiast from Oregon. He also got some landrace seeds from Nepal. By 2014, they had started growing in Oregon. That’s when my friend called me and told me that he got flower, and he wanted me to move it. I lived in Hartford, Connecticut, then and also co-owned a Nepali/Indian restaurant with my cousin, and the business was not good.
So I started moving packs since we had our own grow operation, and we started making hash in the USA in the traditional ways.
It had only been a few months since I started to hustle. Business was great. Our flower crossed with the landrace was amazingly exotic. We called it the ENDO OG.
Around 2015, there were already few underground cannabis sesh scenes on East Coast around Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.
The first underground sesh I went to, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Twenty vendors were inside a warehouse selling cannabis products, but none of them had hashish at their table. I had a brick in my trunk, and we made RSO oils, which lots of people had no idea about. I went to the organizer and asked him how I could vend. He told me it was a two-month waiting line and that I needed an Instagram page with followers. I told him nobody had what I had, but he was kinda a jackass seeing a brown guy.
I had so much history and pride in being from the land of Ganja. The next day, I started a page called Hinduza Collective. I made stickers, business cards, packaging, and everything since day one, and started posting my products and services. I found out about this other small event happening.
I got in the 1st show, and it was amazing. They all loved what I had and my energy. I got so many followers and got so popular on my first show. I went back to the guy, and he had already heard about me from many of his friends. I was in. Now, I was in the cannabis Community, and I had new friends. I had many events all over the Northeast, from the Boston Freedom Rally and Cannabis Cups to all the illegal underground sessions. Business was booming. I used to sew seven days a week and had four full-time workers since I couldn’t be in multiple events at the same time. My brand was very popular. People called me the Hash King, and I was rolling with the big dawgs until I got busted in 2019 with 200 lbs of cannabis in a strip club. I turned my brand into a CBD brand and THC (the healing connection) and started selling it to gas stations and stores to afford some legal work.
When Covid-19 started, I lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, where weed was legal, but I moved back to NYC with my mom. Life was turned upside down from living in a bachelor penthouse while the Covid lockdown was happening in NYC. I was kinda bored and depressed.
Since that was unexpected, I went to Oregon a few times a year to make hash and back to the East Coast to sell it. When it stopped, we didn’t even grow flower the next two years.
Being born in a Hindu family in Nepal, I was very religious. We have so many festivals, like 365 days per year. I was always proud of our history and culture. We have many gods and significance with all the rituals, but I never felt any energy; it was just a ritual until COVID-19 when I was super bored and browsing on my IG. I saw this quote, “If you’re bored when you’re alone, you’re in a bad company,” Sadhguru.
I was like, wow, who is he? I googled him and saw the phrase “inner engineering.” I was, like, wow, I can’t go outside; let me engineer things inside. Then, I started following him, and I was inspired by what he had to say about things and life. I had never thought of the reality of the cosmos and consciousness.
I had a divine power awakening my inner engineering program. I couldn’t figure out the energy, what was happening, and why. Now, my journey has turned to consciousness.
I was a better, happier man and more conscious, and I was adapting my way of life towards self-realization.
Science and the billion-dollar research prove we have millions of cannabinoid receptors in our bodies. In our culture, we have ancient tools and technologies to trigger those (millions) of cannabinoid receptors for ultimate bliss from within for free. We call it Ananda in Sanskrit.
Now, my mission was not just to get people high but to take them higher with me.
My love for the plant was transformed, and the high was not the reason, but about the truth, the medicine, the economy, and ecology for mother nature.
It was 2021 already, and we got ready to harvest this year after almost two years.
I went to Oregon to make hash again, but this time, I had moved to NYC, more conscious, after COVID-19 had ended.
Legalization had been trending globally, and I was very passionate about the plant and its cultural sacramental medicinal uses. And the hippie culture and pride.
I thought of the Legalize Nepal movement. Rajiv Kafle was the first cannabis activist from Nepal to inspire me. I made a poster and added Legalize Nepal. I was promoting my hinduza collective brand and the cannabis culture in Nepal. I had T- shirts, hoodies, and lots of other merchandise showing Nepal’s legacy in the cannabis industry. But now I have decided to make it an official movement.
I knew through social media and the internet that we have a platform that nobody in the history of humanity had where we could reach millions or billions of people. Science and the billion-dollar research backs up the plant. The war on drugs is unfair, and Nepal has been harmed in a major way due to the geopolitics and cannabis ban.
In the past three years, the movement has grown globally. I have met a lot of celebrities, politicians, and artist influencers advocating for relegalization in Nepal. We’ve gained 13k followers and also started the Free The Plant Globally movement. We are also the first cannabis brand/movement to be on top of Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world, and five other peaks. The movement has reached over 20 countries on five continents thanks to all the supporters, friends, and family. People from over 70 counties have visited our website.
We also have been featured in National Geographic, Vice Magazine, The New York Post, Alamy, Roll Call, Getty Images, Honeysuckle Magazine, and National Review.
For the first time in the history of humanity, at every Shivaratri Festival, we have been praying to a cannabis plant next to Lord Shiva and to free the plant globally, and we party for world peace.
I was also selected and certified by the New York State OCM for the Cannabis Compliance and Mentorship Training Program, CCMT.
One priority for my micro business right now is a license.
So many countries and states have recreational. Nepal is still working on starting a medical program, hopefully soon.
I have plans to open up a hemp and hashish museum in Nepal to throw a party for world peace and invite everyone from the world to get high in the Himalayas with us.
Our change.org petition has over 2100 signatures.
https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-legalizenepal-freetheplantglobally-consciousplanet
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Our official quote I wrote for the movement is: “Let’s Free the plant globally for a conscious and chemical-free next generation of humanity.”
Story of my life :
From legacy to legal
From dealer to healer
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