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Illegal drug usage soars in North Korea: 30% nationwide
DailyNK ^
| 2016-12-06
| Kim Seong Hwan
Posted on 12/08/2016 5:01:23 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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The production and smuggling of Meth and heroin was (and probably is) the state-sanctioned enterprise to earn hard currency. All those involved are now going free-agent, making their own for sale. NK is a poor corrupt totalitarian country with large population of drug addicts.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:01:51 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
We should deliver them a couple of tons of heroin a month.
The Pyongyang Airlift
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:09:27 AM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I thought maybe they ran out of grass to feed the people with.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:12:56 AM PST
by
pas
To: TigerLikesRooster
Can’t blame the peasants, they have nothing else to look forward too. Guess we should just nuke’em.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Opiate of the masses. Kim must approve.
To: TigerLikesRooster
state-sanctioned enterprise to earn hard currency
The only way they could have a drug problem is if it was state sanctioned. It makes you wonder how many of our politicians, judges and police have been bought with drug money.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Make them legal. Tax them. Idiocy solved. Government grows.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:29:16 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is acetaminophen an illicit drug?
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:29:44 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
To: PGalt
Make them legal. It is in reality. Enforcement is negligible.
Tax them.
It is done in the form of bribe.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:37:19 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: bert
Probably ... along with penicillin, Vitamin C, iodine ...
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:37:56 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
If I were imprisoned in that hellhole, I’d want to escape my misery through drug addiction too.
I just hope the South Koreans aren’t too idealistic, and/or too eager to reunify under any conditions. If and when reunification happens, it MUST be under the total control of the South. It cannot be a joining of equals, but rather the South taking over the North on its own terms. Anything less than that will lead to disaster.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:44:32 AM PST
by
bus man
(Loose Lips Sink Ships)
To: PGalt
The root of N. Korean drug problem is the collapse of medical services. Hospitals don’t have even most basic drug or medication for treatment. People first used heroin as all-purpose drug, a kind of powerful analgesic which can take care of symptoms, but not the real medical problem. Then Meth came along. From then on, people get them for recreational use, casually used like cigarettes and alcohol.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:45:46 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: bus man
It should be declared as a protectorate(or territory) under S. Korean government with different currency and strict border control. Sudden assimilation would be disastrous for both North and S. Korean population.
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posted on
12/08/2016 5:48:30 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It should be declared as a protectorate(or territory) under S. Korean government with different currency and strict border control. Sudden assimilation would be disastrous for both North and S. Korean population.
I totally agree with you. Given the pictures I've seen of the DMZ, they've got the "strict border control" part already down pat.
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posted on
12/08/2016 6:09:57 AM PST
by
bus man
(Loose Lips Sink Ships)
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: stocksthatgoup
While high on dope, these folks are probably watching a S. Korean TV drama smuggled into their country. Their way of having a good time. A rather depressing snapshot of N. Korean society. Of course, they may not feel that it is depressing.
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posted on
12/08/2016 6:27:32 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
12/08/2016 7:43:32 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Ministry of Peoples Security agents tasked with cracking down on drug dealers could themselves be bribed with drugs.A totalitarian state can't suppress drug use, yet some fantasize that it can be done in the Land of the Free.
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posted on
12/08/2016 10:47:38 AM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
12/08/2016 10:57:22 AM PST
by
AdmSmith
(GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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