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Yeah, NK's state media has always had a very off and somewhat idealist view of the DPRK. Most information you find on the nation doesn't pass the sniff test. They also seem to be the oddball of the socialist countries.
This is one that made me question the western narrative on NK. An article about a stoner getting some North Korean weed and smoking in a restaurant like it was no big deal.. Very good read
The demonization of marijuana is such a bizarre thing. The US wanted to criminalize black culture so they deemed weed in the same category as meth or heroin, and countries in the imperial core and imperial periphery followed suit. But in places untouched by US influence weed is just … a part of their lives and culture. Just another plant that made you feel funny, like tea. And it’s refreshing to see places where weed isn’t just a drug that was decriminalized and made legal again, but actually had its legality preserved throughout and had no taboo associations stemming from it.
Anyway, fuck US culture for demonizing weed and shrooms. The US single-handedly destroyed a source of innovation for mental health research globally for having such a draconian stance on them and sheeple countries follow suit.
As someone with schizophrenia, I can say that the west demonizing psychedelics (shrooms and DMT specifically) has probably set back the treatment of schizophrenia really hardcore. There is a very heavy DMT presence in schizophrenia. I don't know what role is plays exactly, but it is clear as day that DMT is partially responsible for the visuals. And people around me say I pretty much always act like I'm on shrooms. Psychedelic trials are essential to ever getting good schizophrenia treatment.
Also, the coca leaf was a lot like this before the west came in. Chewing a coca leaf doesn't get you super high, it's like a slightly harder cup of coffee, not even particularly addictive when treated right. America literally ruined every common plant medicine. Even starting to fight kratom even though kratom is essential for alleviating the fentanyl crisis in the nation. The US wants criminals, not functioning people
Yeah I've had coca leaf tea and it was just a mild stimulant like caffeine except smoother, felt calm but focused
If leaf was available to me, I'd never touch caffeine. I don't react well to caffeine, but find low dose nicotine or cocaine to be insultingly effective. I can't really handle doing coke recreationally, it's just too much on my body. But it was the stim that hit me the way stims are supposed to hit people with ADHD. So the few times I've gotten actual leaf, it's been an amazing few days of functional medication.
Coca isn't addictive until it's extracted out of the plant. One line of coke is probably like taking 10+ leafs at the exact same time in a way that's far faster than chewing.