Nepal Supreme Court Orders Regulated Cannabis Cultivation Fifty Years After Ban

The <b>Supreme Court of Nepal</b> has issued a landmark directive ordering the government to legalise and regulate cannabis cultivation, exactly <b>50 years</b> after the Himalayan nation imposed a total ban under international pressure. This historic judicial intervention comes after decades of economic stagnation in rural farming communities that once thrived on indigenous hemp production before American anti-drug policies forced a prohibition in the <b>1970s</b>. As the cash-strapped South Asian neighbor desperately seeks new agricultural export revenues and medicinal manufacturing markets, the court has finally acknowledged that treating a traditional plant as a heinous international crime was nothing short of a bureaucratic blunder.