Paradise for Weed Smoker (North Korea)
North Korea, is most conservative, and controlling country in the world is also a weed-smoker paradise. Marijuana is reportedly not conside...
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North Korea, is most conservative, and controlling country in the world
is also a weed-smoker paradise. Marijuana is reportedly not considered
as drug as a result, its the discerning North Korea gentlemen roll up of
choice. For those weed smokers North Korea is a paradise for you.
NK news receives regular reports from those visitors returning from North Korea who told of marijuana plants growing freely along the roadsides, from northern port town of Chongjin right down to the streets of Pyongyang, where it is smoked freely and its sweet scent often catches your nostrils unannounced.
Many residents know the drug exists and have smoked it freely. In North Korea, Drug goes by the name of "ip tambae" or leaf tobacco. Reportedly it is the most popular among young soldiers in North Korea rather than getting hooked in tan and nicotine.
Despite the fact that the government doest crack down the use of marijuana (or opium) and its prevalence among the common people traveling, weeds enthusiasts eager to have sample some NK bud will likely be disappointed . When you are a visitor and you ask where is the best place to get the "special plants" as it euphimistically referred to, the guide will like eschew the question.
Most of the tourists guide are well educated enough in Western legal attitude towards marijuana to not fell the need to promote anything that might attract negative press. Then again, tourist guide will bring you a bottle of Hennessy and they might be more willing to help you out.
The use of marijuana in North Korea is very different from America.
American people use the marijuana just to get high on their own hand as a break from obiquitous cheap local cigarettes while North Korean use the drugs as a way to relax and soothe tight or sore muscle pain for those Korean who are farm workers.
North Korean used news papers to roll up with marijuana. The Rodong Sinmun news paper is a favorite rolling paper among many Korean smokers. It is cut up into squares, then rolled into small cone-shaped spliffs. Some of the visitors found half-lit joint on the ground in a rural area of the coming with the Roding Sinmun used as rolling paper. Tragically, they found out that the marijuana in North Korea isn't very strong.
Meanwhile, the recent legalization of marijuana in Washington State and Colorado, some Americans are clamoring for legalization of the herb across the whole country.
While this remains as a controversial issue, the fact that marijuana appears to be commonly used in North Korea as casual, cheap escape from an tightly controlled society suggest that for all the other worries they have to put up with.
NK news receives regular reports from those visitors returning from North Korea who told of marijuana plants growing freely along the roadsides, from northern port town of Chongjin right down to the streets of Pyongyang, where it is smoked freely and its sweet scent often catches your nostrils unannounced.
Many residents know the drug exists and have smoked it freely. In North Korea, Drug goes by the name of "ip tambae" or leaf tobacco. Reportedly it is the most popular among young soldiers in North Korea rather than getting hooked in tan and nicotine.
Most of the tourists guide are well educated enough in Western legal attitude towards marijuana to not fell the need to promote anything that might attract negative press. Then again, tourist guide will bring you a bottle of Hennessy and they might be more willing to help you out.
The use of marijuana in North Korea is very different from America.
American people use the marijuana just to get high on their own hand as a break from obiquitous cheap local cigarettes while North Korean use the drugs as a way to relax and soothe tight or sore muscle pain for those Korean who are farm workers.
North Korean used news papers to roll up with marijuana. The Rodong Sinmun news paper is a favorite rolling paper among many Korean smokers. It is cut up into squares, then rolled into small cone-shaped spliffs. Some of the visitors found half-lit joint on the ground in a rural area of the coming with the Roding Sinmun used as rolling paper. Tragically, they found out that the marijuana in North Korea isn't very strong.
Meanwhile, the recent legalization of marijuana in Washington State and Colorado, some Americans are clamoring for legalization of the herb across the whole country.
While this remains as a controversial issue, the fact that marijuana appears to be commonly used in North Korea as casual, cheap escape from an tightly controlled society suggest that for all the other worries they have to put up with.
