How and why some Nepalese people risk their lives to get ‘mad honey’

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Published on November 4, 2023 by Tex Hollywood

Honeybees derive nectar from any neighboring flower they can find, and rarely, when they gather nectar from poisonous flowers, the results can be strange. Such is the case for some bees in Nepal that make honey from rhododendron flowers, a type of very poisonous flowering plant. The resulting honey is deadly, but if ingested in small enough quantities, it produces a powerful high, which the Nepalese honey gatherers risk their lives to get.

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