-
As of today ICMag has his own Discord server. In this Discord server you can chat, talk with eachother, listen to music, share stories and pictures...and much more. Join now and let's grow together! Join ICMag Discord here! More details in this thread here: here.
People say North Korea is bad...
- Thread starter GuerrillaRed
- Start date
LOL...they got no food and a crumbling infrastructure. People get arrested and jailed in work camps for talking bad about lil kim...but that's ok because weed is legal?
NK is a hell hole and the people there are suffering. The last thing on your mind when you're starving is "where can I score some herb?"
HB.
NK is a hell hole and the people there are suffering. The last thing on your mind when you're starving is "where can I score some herb?"
HB.
GuerrillaRed
Member
I find North Korea completely fascinating, I want to visit there some day. It's the only bullshit Stalinst commie regime left on earth. It would be like getting in a time machine.
I posted this mainly because it was funny to scroll through and see huge prison sentences or death in every country, all of a sudden boom in North Korea it's completely legal apparently.
Made me wonder how much 1000 amps a month cost in Best Korea.
I posted this mainly because it was funny to scroll through and see huge prison sentences or death in every country, all of a sudden boom in North Korea it's completely legal apparently.
Made me wonder how much 1000 amps a month cost in Best Korea.
N. Korea is a blow hole. I watched an undercover documentary on Nat Geo with Lisa Ling where she went undercover with a humanitarian mission into N. Korea. You want to see what a brainwashed police state living 50+ years in the past looks like look at N. Korea.
El_Kabong
Member
that's north korea outlined in red, you will not find 1000 amps to grow with, never mind the cost
N
noyd666
good read, probably more reliable using candles over there.
N
noyd666
probably slow torture trick of that bastard.Bad Habits
Member
I visited Burma 6 years ago before the new "reforms" started taking place, and it truly was like stepping through a time machine. Because of the military dictatorship and heavy trade sanctions imposed against them a lot of their infrastructure and stuff like that was from the 1970s-1980s. Pretty much EVERY cab I took was an 80s honda, not once did I use a taxi that even had electric windows. It was a trip!
I'm really glad I was able to visit when I did before a lot of foreign investment came in because I was able to see what a country is like that's stuck 20-30 years in the past.
S
sourpuss
Yeah weed is prob one of the last things on their minds over there. Gotta wonder what the strains r over there. Id assume imported schwag. Sold by the gov to the poor... or is it landrace???? Time to google....
El_Kabong
Member
try this for the next 30 days, get good and blazed then go ahead and try to kill those munchies with a half a bowl of white rice, that's the n. korean weed experience
if you're into heady sativas I couldn't imagine a finer place to get paranoid than n. korea, you will certainly attain the absolute pinnacle of that experience
if you're into heady sativas I couldn't imagine a finer place to get paranoid than n. korea, you will certainly attain the absolute pinnacle of that experience
GuerrillaRed
Member
Seriously though, this has to be a joke though right? How could anyone confirm marijuana is legal in North Korea and why haven't we heard about this before?
Ha, that was one of my first thoughts too. Need to get North Korean genetics on the American streets.
Ha, that was one of my first thoughts too. Need to get North Korean genetics on the American streets.
those poor people need all the weed they can smoke...they must all be really stoned to follow that delusional idiot...I want to try what they are smoking ...north korea might have the next cup winner if they only enter
GuerrillaRed
Member
I think I'm going to send an e-mail to the North Korean embassy asking some questions. I would totally go to North Korea this summer to smoke some Js and bring back North Korean genetics.
GuerrillaRed
Member
Okay guys, I just sent an e-mail to every English speaking country with the Korean Friends Association and I sent e-mails to every embassy and North Korean news agency I could find online. I'm about to start e-mailing North Korean tourist agencies. I'll keep sending e-mails to anyone in North Korea who could help with this.
I've always wanted to go to North Korea but I've never had a reason to go to North Korea... I would kill for North Korean genetics just to see what they do or what they're like. I imagine the North Koreans would be pretty unhappy with an American sneaking out their genetics, but fuck it, it's worth a shot. I really want to make this happen and I got a few months to kill this summer. At the least, hopefully I'll get some funny e-mails back from confused North Korean delegates.
I've always wanted to go to North Korea but I've never had a reason to go to North Korea... I would kill for North Korean genetics just to see what they do or what they're like. I imagine the North Koreans would be pretty unhappy with an American sneaking out their genetics, but fuck it, it's worth a shot. I really want to make this happen and I got a few months to kill this summer. At the least, hopefully I'll get some funny e-mails back from confused North Korean delegates.
North Korea Smokes Weed Every Day, Explaining a Lot
http://www.vice.com/read/north-korea-is-stoned-all-the-time-which-explains-a-lot
January 16, 2013
By Ben Tool
North Korea, the most tight-lipped, conservative, and controlling country in the world is also a weed-smoker’s paradise. Despite the government’s deadly serious stance on the use and distribution of hard drugs like crystal meth (which has a notorious legacy in the country), marijuana is reportedly not 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 the 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. Our sources are people we know who work inside North Korea and make regular trips in and out of the country.
There is no taboo around pot smoking in the country—many residents 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 and nicotine like servicemen in the West, they are able to unwind by lighting up a king-sized bone during down time on the military beat.
Despite the fact the government doesn't crack down on the use of marijuana (or opium) and its prevalence among the common people, traveling weed enthusiasts eager to sample some NK bud will likely 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. Most of them are educated enough in Western legal attitudes toward marijuana to not feel the need to promote anything that might attract negative press. Then again, bring them a bottle of Hennessy and they might be more willing to help you out.
The reasons for smoking weed in North Korea differ from America. In North Korea, you don’t smoke just 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. In the black markets of North Korea, marijuana is commonly sold at a cheap price and is easily obtainable. 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 their 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.
The Rodong Sinmun newspaper is a favorite rolling paper among many North Korean smokers. It is cut up into squares, then rolled into small, cone-shaped spliffs. A source confirmed to NK NEWS that they had found a half-lit joint on the ground in a rural area of the country with the Rodong Sinmun used as rolling paper. The same source noted that, tragically, the weed in North Korea isn’t very strong.
Although weed grows naturally on the Korean peninsula, it is cultivated more formally in some areas. The herb is often grown in the private gardens of North Koreans. An American who travels to North Korea every year commented on Reddit, “We came to a garden one day and took one look and said, ‘that is weed!’ We went over and sure enough they were growing marijuana. I had heard it is used for medicine but finding it was interesting.”
Reports of marijuana use date back to the formation of the nation as it exists today. After the Korean War, US soldiers commonly plucked the herb from the DMZ areas near the North Korean border and smoked it. Stories of tents being hot boxed by tired fighters is a common recollection in the folklore of the difficult era.
Meanwhile back in the West, with 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 a controversial issue, the fact that marijuana appears to be commonly used in North Korea as a casual, cheap escape from an otherwise tightly controlled society suggests that for all the other worries they have to put up with, they do enjoy at least one perk denied to people like me living here in the land of the free.
http://www.vice.com/read/north-korea-is-stoned-all-the-time-which-explains-a-lot
January 16, 2013
By Ben Tool
North Korea, the most tight-lipped, conservative, and controlling country in the world is also a weed-smoker’s paradise. Despite the government’s deadly serious stance on the use and distribution of hard drugs like crystal meth (which has a notorious legacy in the country), marijuana is reportedly not 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 the 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. Our sources are people we know who work inside North Korea and make regular trips in and out of the country.
There is no taboo around pot smoking in the country—many residents 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 and nicotine like servicemen in the West, they are able to unwind by lighting up a king-sized bone during down time on the military beat.
Despite the fact the government doesn't crack down on the use of marijuana (or opium) and its prevalence among the common people, traveling weed enthusiasts eager to sample some NK bud will likely 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. Most of them are educated enough in Western legal attitudes toward marijuana to not feel the need to promote anything that might attract negative press. Then again, bring them a bottle of Hennessy and they might be more willing to help you out.
The reasons for smoking weed in North Korea differ from America. In North Korea, you don’t smoke just 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. In the black markets of North Korea, marijuana is commonly sold at a cheap price and is easily obtainable. 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 their 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.
The Rodong Sinmun newspaper is a favorite rolling paper among many North Korean smokers. It is cut up into squares, then rolled into small, cone-shaped spliffs. A source confirmed to NK NEWS that they had found a half-lit joint on the ground in a rural area of the country with the Rodong Sinmun used as rolling paper. The same source noted that, tragically, the weed in North Korea isn’t very strong.
Although weed grows naturally on the Korean peninsula, it is cultivated more formally in some areas. The herb is often grown in the private gardens of North Koreans. An American who travels to North Korea every year commented on Reddit, “We came to a garden one day and took one look and said, ‘that is weed!’ We went over and sure enough they were growing marijuana. I had heard it is used for medicine but finding it was interesting.”
Reports of marijuana use date back to the formation of the nation as it exists today. After the Korean War, US soldiers commonly plucked the herb from the DMZ areas near the North Korean border and smoked it. Stories of tents being hot boxed by tired fighters is a common recollection in the folklore of the difficult era.
Meanwhile back in the West, with 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 a controversial issue, the fact that marijuana appears to be commonly used in North Korea as a casual, cheap escape from an otherwise tightly controlled society suggests that for all the other worries they have to put up with, they do enjoy at least one perk denied to people like me living here in the land of the free.
yeah from what I read, they don't like putting attention to things like weed, so if you go there, they might not be willing to help and it might be considered rude.
that information was taken from this article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/marijuana-in-north-korea_n_4067341.html
also, someone is saying that it's not true.. from an article in The Guardian
that information was taken from this article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/marijuana-in-north-korea_n_4067341.html
also, someone is saying that it's not true.. from an article in The Guardian
I think North Korea somewhat seems cool and interesting from a certain view point.
People seem more calm, they are not yet introduced to our American bullshit, sure they are introduced to their own kind of bullshit but these people, to me, seem simple minded. Like they are kept in the dark. I find that somehow, interesting.
Keeping the people stupid, keeping good control on them.
Sounds like they are doing a good job over there.
Keep in mind, that I don't have a super good idea of what's going on over there, I think not a lot of people know what's really going on over there. It's hard to believe that the world is letting them do this.
People seem more calm, they are not yet introduced to our American bullshit, sure they are introduced to their own kind of bullshit but these people, to me, seem simple minded. Like they are kept in the dark. I find that somehow, interesting.
Keeping the people stupid, keeping good control on them.
Sounds like they are doing a good job over there.
Keep in mind, that I don't have a super good idea of what's going on over there, I think not a lot of people know what's really going on over there. It's hard to believe that the world is letting them do this.
