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.
North Korea: A Pot Smoker's Paradise
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NK News
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.
Despite the fact the government does not crackdown on the use of the marijuana (or opium) and its prevalence amongst the common people, all you groups of dreadlocked California hippies and Burning Man festival survivors hoping to book yourselves onto a spliff-sampling tour after reading this are likely to be disappointed. If a Western tourist asks his or her guide where is the best place to get the “special plant,” as it is euphemistically referred to, the guide will most likely eschew the question. They’re likely well enough educated in Western legal attitudes towards marijuana to not feel the need to promote anything that might draw any more negative press.
The reason for smoking weed in North Korea differs from America. In North Korea, you don’t smoke weed purely to get high and laugh at your own hand, you do it to save money and as a break from the ubiquitous cheap local cigarettes that do more damage than good. In the black markets of North Korea, marijuana is sold at a cheap price and is easily obtainable in some areas. Therefore, the drug is especially popular among the lower classes of North Korean society. After a day of hard manual labor, it is common for North Korean workers to smoke marijuana as a way to relax and soothe tight or sore muscles.
One of the great bits of North Korean mythology we’ve all heard a million times is that citizens may not fold their newspapers lest they accidentally fold a picture of the leaders. But luckily not every page features those powerful, attention-seeking bossmen, so all the paper’s more easily recyclable parts (sports, weather, TV listings) end up being used to roll up tobacco and marijuana.
continued: http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/strug...edy-the-truth-about-marijuana-in-north-korea/
You know what that means, in ten years Washingtonians are going to start finding themselves in gulags. 8(
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?
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?
great until you get the munchies and realise there's no food
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
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
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.
I know the article said they didn't have strong weed but they might have some unique genetics/traits. Could be interesting.
a perk in an otherwise despicable country
yeah, i'm not going there on a stoners holiday. Amsterdam sounds good.
Boupstarnm;11232628 said:
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.
