North Korea: A Pot Smoker's Paradise

[Unbreakable]

You might be surprised by what we’re about to say: the most tight-lipped, conservative and controlling country in the world is also a weed-smoker’s paradise. Despite the North Korean government’s deadly serious stance on the use and distribution of hard drugs like crystal meth (which has its own inauspicious legacy in the North), marijuana is reportedly neither classified illegal or in any way policed. The herb of the bohemian and free is not even considered a drug. As a result, it’s the discerning North Korean gentleman’s roll-up of choice, suggesting that for weed smokers at least, North Korea might just be paradise after all.

NK NEWS receives regular reports from visitors returning from North Korea, who tell us of marijuana plants growing freely along the roadsides, from northern port town Chongjin, right down to the streets of Pyongyang, where it is smoked freely and its sweet scent often catches your nostrils unannounced.

There is no taboo around pot smoking in the country – many North Koreans know the drug exists and have smoked it. In North Korea, the drug goes by the name of ip tambae or “leaf tobacco.” It is reported to be especially popular amongst young soldiers in the North Korean military – rather than getting hooked on tar & nicotine like their contemporaries in the West, they fraternize without fear of repercussion by lighting up king-sized doobies during down time on the military beat.

http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/strug...edy-the-truth-about-marijuana-in-north-korea/

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Still prefer how things are here where I am, since I have a lot more freedom here than someone of my stance in North Korea would, but that's good to know that they're toking there. Very surprising.

 

[Portillo]

If you cant keep drugs out of prisons, schools and communist countries, how do you expect to keep drugs out of the general public.

 

[Clocktower]

You know what that means, in ten years Washingtonians are going to start finding themselves in gulags. 8(

 

[Foreigner]

Most people in North Korea are starving or working very difficult existences to make due in such a failed economy. I doubt people are sitting around getting stoned all day.

It's a fun anecdote about NK but you'd have to be very careful what you say or do once you're high or you could end up in a gulag. What's the point of doing a mind expanding substance when you will be killed for your mental accomplishments?

 

[megawoof]

like its been said they struggle to feed everyone there god help you if you get the munchies from smoking pot all day

 

[wayab]

isn't hemp advertised as cheap food source by pro weed people ?

 

[P A]

It's a fun anecdote about NK but you'd have to be very careful what you say or do once you're high or you could end up in a gulag. What's the point of doing a mind expanding substance when you will be killed for your mental accomplishments?

lolol If toking constitutes a 'mental accomplishment,' I suppose I spent the duration of my high school career in the company of the next Isaac Newtons and Aristotles of this world.

 

[pofacedhoe]

great until you get the munchies and realise there's no food

 

[Bill]

Supposedly they export a lot of meth and heroin too, google maps even noted a very large expansion of there poppy fields, over just a few years, all residing in the labor camps

No wonder they haven't collapsed yet
I forget there slang for H, I seen it on a doc one night where a guy was crossing the very north border river into China

His translated speech was something like, it's heroin, very potent and I can get a lot more

 

[ro4eva]

I wonder what their stance is on the opium poppy. After all, it is a plant.

Damn you pro drug prohibitionists for taking away my freedom because I wish to grow some flowers in my backyard with the intent of harvesting their latex to ingest.

 

[sekio]

Oh boy, this makes me totally want to move to north korea now.

Someone on reddit pointed out though, imagine being stoned in a country known for its food shortages, where Kim Jong-Un is literally the only guy who could buy a box of Ho-Ho's...

 

[Venrak]

^I wonder which type of root a stoner in NK would be compelled to munch out on...

 

[Boupstarnm]

I wanna know about strains. Has NK been closed off long enough from the outside world to have true land race strains?

I know the article said they didn't have strong weed but they might have some unique genetics/traits. Could be interesting.

 

[AlphaMethylPhenyl]

a perk in an otherwise despicable country

 

[poledriver]

yeah, i'm not going there on a stoners holiday. Amsterdam sounds good.

 

[whataboutheforests]

I wanna know about strains. Has NK been closed off long enough from the outside world to have true land race strains?

I know the article said they didn't have strong weed but they might have some unique genetics/traits. Could be interesting.

when I was a mmj patient in colorado, this guy I knew froma dispensary brought back this land race strain from columbia, apparently he took a clone in his pants on the plane haha. It was called The T.R.U.T.H., super fire 100% sativa

LIke CapnH already said, when you have a medical card in CA, it's already a pot smoker's paradise. I don't need to go to NK.

 

[kushad]

Seems like they allow it because maybe it helps keep people content and calm. Thoughts?

 

[stivsmegg]

yeah, i'm not going there on a stoners holiday. Amsterdam sounds good.

too bad foreigners cant go to shops anymore though.

 

[stivsmegg]

Seems like they allow it because maybe it helps keep people content and calm. Thoughts?

totally!! and their control is so complete there they dont have to worry about a drug culture growing in to a subversive one.