This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on October 10, 2014.
Today the world is questioning the whereabouts of Kim Jong Un, the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea. What the world does not question is the country’s view on cannabis. No law exists in North Korea that prohibits or criminalizes the use or sale of cannabis.
Cannabis is legal in North Korea and Kim Jong-un does not consider it to be a drug. Grocery bags full of it can be bought in markets for as little as .50 Euros.
Writer Darmon Richter said he purchased a plastic bag full of weed in an indoor market in North Korea and smoked it in outdoor parks, restaurants and bars.
Posting on his blog, he wrote: “So as it turns out, growing and smoking cannabis is completely legal in North Korea. Encouraged, even.”
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