Bro… weed is like… super-chilled,man…

It may impair your brain a little – causing side-effects such as dizziness, dehydration, and like… struggling to spell. Just check out the totally bodacious heroin/heroine debacle… We’ve all been there, man!

Jokes aside, while North Korea is not exactly known to be the epitome of free-living, the country doesn’t consider marijuana to be a drug.

It’s perfectly legal to smoke weed out in the open, and a lot of people actually prefer it, given that government cigarettes are incredibly overpriced.

The Bohemian Blog, written by Darmon Richter, ran a piece about Darmon’s experience with weed in the state.

As it turns out the “special plant,” as they refer to it here, is completely legal. We decided to test the theory, purchasing papers from another stall before rolling up and lighting comically oversized joints right there in the middle of the crowded market. Bizarre as the situation was, it seemed a reasonably safe move – and with several hundred people already staring at us, we weren’t going to feel any more paranoid than we already were.

Right now, a lot of people are changing their Amsterdam trips to swing by North Korea instead.

Check out the full story on The Telegraph.