Harm Reduction International, citing a Daily NK report and the US narcotics strategy report, said a 2008 criminal-code amendment made possession of more than 300 grams of narcotic drugs punishable by death. The claim was about narcotic drugs in general and did not name cannabis. Later criminal-code tables set death for large-scale manufacture or trafficking, not simple possession, and no cannabis case or threshold has been verified.[1]
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References
- The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2012p. 44, North Korea entryarchived
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