Move over Amsterdam

Ok..I have learned some new things today! There are multiple parts to this story and they are all so ridiculous (good ridiculous) that I don't know where to start, but they all came about with a simple question about pigs. Ready?

First, I am on the tuk tuk with Lori today, and past us flies a moped with two pigs, upside down, strapped to the back. I assume they are dead, on their way to the butcher. Why else would they be hoof-in-the-air-upside down?
Well it turns out that they are very much alive. And pig farmers are often also marijuana farmers. And when pigs need to go to the butcher, the farmer feeds them a whole lot of pot, gets them stoned out of their mind, wraps them in a bamboo mat, turns them on their backs and straps them to the moped. That's right, folks, this is really how it's done! Lori's father, a pig farmer in the States, confirmed that if one can get pigs on their back, they go into a sort of state where they don't move. But how does one get a pig on its back....well here is one solution!

So I ask, silly me, what's the scoop with pot in the country - do people smoke it, is it an issue? What? Well, apparently a few years ago, there were bags of it (like garbage bags of it) available at the markets, as no one really thought much of it - locals didn't really use it. Well then foreigners found out, as they are wont to do, and they started getting all messed up on it, as they are also wont to do....and making poor choices...like trying to smuggle it out of the country. So now...no more bags of mary jane at the market.

So I ask, still the innocent one, how does one come to know this information? Well, from the pizza guy. The pizza guy?Sure, the guy from Happy Pizza.

That's right.....forget pot brownies, baked in the secrecy of your own home. Right here in Siem Reap, (and apparently other neighbouring countries- Thailand, Laos etc.) out at some places on Pub Street, one can order a Happy Pizza, or a Really Happy Pizza, Extremely Happy Pizza, or a Pizza with Extra Happy. I've heard it's quite potent.
And better yet, if you order a pizza with Happy on the side, you actually get a bowl of pot.

Seriously.

Always here to provide your bit of randomness for the day.
J.