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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (766319)1/28/2014 11:32:02 AM
From: Brumar89   of 1577192
 
NK is the nirvana of legal drugs? I wondered what the legal drug paradise would look like.

.... pot is legal, opium is a common pain reliever, and meth is used to treat colds, flagging energy, and hunger. "If you go to somebody's house it is a polite way to greet somebody by offering them a sniff," says one North Korean. "It is like drinking coffee when you're sleepy, but ice is so much better."

Meth was long produced by Pyongyang itself, as a cash cow export used to fund Kim Jong Il's whims. But since the state officially got out of the meth business, it seems everyone in the impoverished nation wants to be Walter White. One former miner who tried hawking just about everything finally turned to dealing meth. "It was just enough money that I could buy rice to eat and coal for heating," she says. "
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