io9.com:
The Chu Valley between Kyrgyzstan and Kazkhstan is the home to an extremely hardy type of marijuana that resisted Soviet-era efforts to stamp it out. Law-breaking marijuana farmers in the region harvest the crop normally, but they also procure their stick-icky using a tried and true method that’s been around for centuries: nude equestrianism.
Every August, naked horseback riders descend on the Chu to gather resin for a highly concentrated form of smokeable marijuana known as “plastilin.” Plastilin is so potent that a few pieces the size of pinheads will get the user proper goofy. Explains Radio Free Europe:
It begins with a freshly showered person riding naked for hours on a clean, washed horse inside a two-meter-high “forest” of marijuana.
Afterwards, the human body and that of the horse are covered with a thick layer of resin mixed with sweat.
This produces a substance that is usually dark brown in color, which is then thoroughly scraped off the human and horse’s bodies […] But it is a lot harder to produce this form of the drug because you need more time to make it.
Imagine 10, 20, or 30 individuals running or riding naked in a field of wild marijuana. It goes without saying that they are more exposed and it is easier to catch them. Nonetheless, people do it and they have been doing it since time immemorial.
Ooooookay then….
I think I would rather harvest the guy on the horse.
Yes my favourite pastime is riding naked through a marijuana forest naked and then having all the young village boys lick the resin off me. Oh wait! thats a fantasy! lol!
very carefree
This all goes under the heading of “Who the hell ever discovered this in the first place? And how?” Must have been one heck of a party: “Wait, Dimitri — I have an idea! Let’s get a couple of horses, strip naked, ride around through some marijuana fields for a couple of hours, then lick the brown gooey stuff off our bodies!” “Great idea, Alexei! Then, for a REAL good time, we can suck on our horses, too!” Personally, I’d much rather scrape the resin off the handsome guy, than the horse. Makes me smile — there are people who don’t believe in things like evolution, yet have no problem swallowing customs like this. Go figure.
and then the harvest the green cheese from the moon, without the aid of a rocket to get there. if this is true then i’m going to win the €140,000,000 lottery jackpot on friday, without buying a ticket, in which case i’m out of here, for that country where tight bodied young men just fight over guys my age and shape just for the honour of sucking my cock all day every day, thats when they are not being fucked in their tight muscled asses and treat my cum like the nectar ofthe gods, you’ve got your dreams, i’ve got mine, of course a plentful supply of the local product featured in this story wouldn’t go amiss either, we all got to die somehow ? thirty years of that lifestyle will do me just fine