[Korea Encounters] How US-style drug laws helped crush 1970s Korean youth culture

The reason for this can be traced back to a loophole in the 1957 Narcotics Law which banned only “Indian marijuana,” but ignored the use of Korean hemp . In the early 1960s it was sold around U.S. bases in Korea as “happy smoke,” and in mid-1966 U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) authorities brought this up … … Continue reading [Korea Encounters] How US-style drug laws helped crush 1970s Korean youth culture

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