While it's legal to purchase mad honey in the United States, other countries like Australia and South Korea have banned the hallucinogenic honey. Nepalese mad honey can fetch as much as 80 USD per ...

For centuries, the Gurungs have been the only people to harvest "mad honey" from their cliff in Nepal. The honey has hallucinogenic properties, and harvesting it is a big part of the Gurungs' culture.

reddish fluid known as mad honey, which, thanks to its hallucinogenic properties, sells on Asian black markets for $60 to $80 a pound—roughly six times the price of regular Nepali honey.

Mad honey has become a prized commodity on the ancient ... acting as a cultural treasure for the indigenous heritage of Nepal. Gurung honey maintains its status as a wellness treasure among ...

Sameer Shah of Best Mad Honey, a distributor based in Nepal, told Target 8 he’d never encountered delusions caused by mad honey. “That being said,” wrote Shah, “if ingested in high doses ...