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22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:26 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:26 am
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Twenty-two Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand were arrested on Sunday at the main international airport with a record 242 pounds of powerful cannabis, officials said.
A Sri Lanka Customs spokesman said the group, returning home after a four-day vacation in the Thai capital, had Kush -- a potent, plant-based strain of cannabis -- hidden in their luggage.
"Each carried about five kilos of the narcotic concealed within false walls in their luggage," the spokesman said, adding that the monks had been handed over to police.
They were to be taken before a magistrate later on Sunday.
The monks were mostly young students from temples across Sri Lanka and had been on a holiday sponsored by a businessman.
Customs officials said it was the largest single detection of Kush at the South Asian country's main international airport.
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In June 2025, Sri Lanka's customs authorities arrested a woman and seized the largest haul of cocaine ever detected at the country's main airport. Officials said the unnamed 38-year-old Thai woman was carrying about 22 pounds of cocaine stuffed into three plush toys.
Sri Lankan authorities have also made several detections of large hauls of heroin and other narcotics smuggled in via small fishing boats in recent years.
The latest arrests aren't the first time monks have run afoul of drug laws.
In 2022, every single monk at a Buddhist temple in central Thailand was defrocked after they tested positive for methamphetamine. The monks were sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehabilitation.
In 2017, police said a Buddhist monk was arrested in Myanmar after authorities found more than 4 million meth pills in his car and in his monastery.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monks-arrested-sri-lanka-airport-record-drug-bust-kush/
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Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:27 am to Shexter
Shouldn't they be on Bourbon Street selling beads?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:29 am to stout
200+ pounds of cannabis. They weren't planning on leaving the monastery for a while.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:32 am to Shexter
In Colorado one summer we were leaving a restaurant and 5 monks walked in all wearing their traditional orange Ka?aya. The last one had a neon green Colorado hat on as well. I always thought it was a beginning of a joke, but now we know they were just getting baked.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:32 am to stout
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Shouldn't they be on Bourbon Street selling beads?
That's more of a Seattle West Coast thing
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:33 am to Shexter
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five kilos
That's a lot of weed...
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:35 am to Shexter
No wonder they sit around doing nothing all day...
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:38 am to Kansas City King
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That's more of a Seattle West Coast thing
You clearly have never walked around the French Quarter
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:41 am to Shexter
"enlightenment" can be achieved through deep spiritual mediation and cultivation, but sometimes through getting 'lit'.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:51 am to Shexter
Are these the same ones that try to hand you bracelets on Bourbon st?
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 9:52 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:21 am to stout
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You clearly have never walked around the French Quarter
I have actually. Only thing I encountered was black dudes trying to sell me weed.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:30 am to Shexter
I'm surprised they got out of Thailand with all that dozier, if I'm being honest.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:35 am to Shexter
The monks just trying to L I V I N.
Just wanna sit around the monastery and enjoy the ride.
Not sure i have an issue with monks getting high
Just wanna sit around the monastery and enjoy the ride.
Not sure i have an issue with monks getting high
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:37 am to Shexter
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plant-based strain of cannabis
I prefer my cannabis fish-based.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:43 am to Fat and Happy
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Not sure i have an issue with monks getting high
Well, the issue being it's pretty much against Buddhist teachings. That whole Fifth Precept and all.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:44 am to Shexter
Monks selling buddha, ih the irony
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:46 am to Shexter
They’re looking really skinny for weed smoking
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:47 am to Shexter
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The monks were mostly young students from temples across Sri Lanka and had been on a holiday sponsored by a businessman.
Early betting odds he was in the drug business.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:50 am to Shexter
Posted on 4/27/26 at 10:58 am to Cheese Grits
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The monks were mostly young students from temples across Sri Lanka and had been on a holiday sponsored by a businessman.
Early betting odds he was in the drug business.
And that the businessman provided them with identical suitcases manufactured by his company. After all, the monks have no personal belongings and wouldn't have suitcases of their own much less the money to buy them.
Or they are really really organized about things not contemplative.
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