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.

Think about this. Possibly the only country in the world where there is no western corporate prescnse and ‘Mary Jane’ is freely smoked. Not as crazy as you might think. the only reason why Marijuana is illegal in the west is because corporations saddled a prohibition on it because they couldnt figure out a way to regulate and sell it for profitand it hurt their bottomline because its stronger and cheaper than the crap we buy now. Not to mention the irony that marijjuana is legal in the most totolitarian state in the world. -Mort