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North Korea sees reports of widespread tolerated cannabis smoking

Vice, citing sources in the country, reports cannabis widely used and tolerated in North Korea, smoked as ipdambae ("leaf tobacco") by the lower classes as a cheap cigarette alternative. A 2010 NGO account likewise said a meth crackdown treated marijuana as not a drug.[1]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in North Koreaarchived

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