The entire congregation of Buddhist monks at a monastery in central Thailand have been removed from their positions and sent to a rehab facility after testing positive for methamphetamine.
The four monks had been serving in a monastery in the Bueng Sam Phan district of the country’s Phetchabun province, a hilly region in a north-central inland part of the southeast Asian nation.
According to Agence France-Presse, which first reported the shocking story this week, the four monks — including the temple’s abbot — were outed by officials after failing drug tests on Monday.
Wait, why were the monks being drug-tested in the first place? Surely that isn’t common practice, they aren’t a high school football team.
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