Holy Smoke

Serenity in the modern world is notoriously difficult to achieve; which may help to explain the activities of twenty-three allegedly felonious monks now helping Sri Lankan police with their inquiries. Twenty-two of them had been on a plain-clothes holiday in Bangkok, and returned carrying a hundred and ten kilograms of quality cannabis concealed like a higher truth behind the worldly walls of their luggage. The twenty-third supposedly organised the spiritual retreat and had told his brothers that all those packages were a donation. Should they all end up sentenced to a lifetime or more of community service, their orange robes may at least save the Sri Lankan penal system some jumpsuit expenses.