Marijuana grows easily in Cambodia, and used to be very easily available – you could simply wander up to somebody in the market and ask for it. Nowadays it has become marginally less easy as the police have become more vigilant, but it’s still the case that most market stalls will have some, and most farm
ers will grow some.
Marijuana is illegal, and since there is no drug classification system (such as the UK A/B/C grading) it is just as illegal as heroin. However marijuana is widely used with no repercussions. It is considered widely socially acceptable to include some marijuana in your food, although smoking it would be frowned upon by many.
We went to a restaurant in Battambang that included the following as one of the items on the menu:
Happy Chicken soup (soup with chiken and happy herbs, including mariwana) (sic, of course)
The day we went they were out of “mariwana” (not that two well-behaved law-abiding citizens like us would have tried it, obviously!). The name of the restaurant was (we’re not making this up) Smoking Pot!
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