A key part of Shivaratri is the freedom to smoke marijuana, an act that is normally punishable by prison sentences of up to a month for users and 10 years for traffickers. The forest area across ...

At some temples, Hindu holy men, also known as Sadhus, smoked marijuana – a practice that is normally illegal but is permitted during the Shivaratri festival – and smeared their bodies with ...

At some temples, Hindu holy men, also known as Sadhus, smoke marijuana — a practice that is normally illegal but is permitted during the Shivaratri festival — and smear their bodies with ash ...

(Photo by Prakash Mathema / AFP) Sadhu or a holy man smokes Marijuana using a chillum (pipe) during the festivities ahead of the 'Maha Shivaratri', an annual festival dedicated to the Hindu god ...

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at a revered temple in Nepal's capital on Wednesday to celebrate one of the country's biggest religious festivals. In the Bankali forests near ...