They Sell Hemp Seeds, Why Is CBD Oil Illegal In Korea?

Some Korean mothers who have children with epilepsy want CBD oil to be legalized in Korea. Hemp seed has CDB, but hemp seeds are legal.

Anyways, a bill was introduced to make it legal a few years ago, but a committee said it was anti-social and killed the bill.  They are trying to introduce another one, but are short of signatures.

A singer was indicted for marijuana, a couple of days ago, prosecutors are asking for 5 years imprisonment. Many end up getting suspended sentences, but some do get a year or two in prison.

The government is trying to raise property taxes. I am a property owner and would gladly pay much much more in property tax, just as long as the rich pay theirs. The very rich have tons of real estate and they pay really low property tax. Just a few years ago, they didn't even have to report rental income.

Luckily many more Koreans, nowadays, do not trust media which are controlled by the rich. Still have a long ways to go, but things seem to be moving along much faster now.

More and more Koreans trust newspapers like Hanykoreh, which was started by journalists, many fired for their pursuit of freedom and democracy.

Korean Media Claim Reduced Work Week Will Wreck Korean Economy

While most of Korean media is blaming the recent increase in minimum wage for all of Korea's economic woes, and arguing that a reduced work week with create tremendous hardships for employers and reduced wages for employees, there was a very welcome and refreshing article in CNN about Korea and the reduced work week.

CNN: South Korea cuts its work limit from 68 hours a week to 52

I remember when Koreans used to have to work on Saturdays. Samsung Electronics used to make employees work in Sundays also if export targets were not achieved in the 70s and 80s.

How To Get Rid Of Munchies?

Try drinking a glass of wine or a shot of alcohol. Works for me. A lot slimmer now.

Former Korean President Myung-bak Lee Used Police To Spy On Citizens

Several months ago, in a building owned by a foundation controlled by the former president, Myung-bak Lee, prosecutors carrying out search warrants found documents from the police to the former president reporting on citizens and politicians critical of the Lee administration, among other incriminating documents.

Yonhap News: Police seek probe of officers allegedly involved in political interference

The chairman of Korea Airlines, Yangho Cho, didn't use any of the numerous tax loopholes available to him. Instead, he just didn't report $44 million that he inherited, because it was held abroad. Now, if convicted, he faces at least 5 years in prison. But rich people always seems to get a suspended sentence of 2 years and probation. He is also being investigated for many more crimes. About time, he and his family have been doing crooked things for decades.

The Standard: Korean Air chief Cho Yang Ho faces questions on US$44m tax evasion, plunder

"We may all be dissociated personalities of a universal consciousness"

The fabric of the universe may be made up of spacetime, energy and consciousness.

Scientific American: Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?

New York Catches Up

In the 1970s, Ann Arbor, Michigan changed the laws to only fine cannabis offenders. Now, New York is following suit!

The Vice: Finally, New York Will Stop Arresting Most People for Blazing in Public

Many people suspected that the pharmaceutical industry lobbied hard to keep cannabis illegal. They had a lot of reasons for doing so, it seems.

CBS: Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress

Most of those people on opiates would probably have been much better off eating a little cannabis grown in their garden.

Even scientists agree that cannabis needs to be decriminalized.

Scientific American: End the War on Weed

Korean Businesses Cut Down On Jobs

Job growth has drastically fallen from around 300,000 per month early in the year to 110,000 for the past three months and 70,000 for May.

Could it be businesses are cutting back on jobs and investment, in retaliation for increasing the minimum wage to around $7 and other liberal policies?

Xinhuanet: S.Korea faces employment shock as job increase hits 8-year low

The economy is strong. Third month of record trade surpluses. Financial companies doing great due to increased interest rates. Something seem wrong?

On the news today, most of the media are reporting on the low job rate and ever increasing gap between the rich and poor. They are implying that President Moon's administration is to blame.

The ones to blame are the conservative administrations of the imprisoned former presidents Lee and Park, along with the conservative party. Disrupting unions. Decreasing tax on the rich. Stopping regulation of unfair business practices, such as raising rent by 1000% after 5 years. Ending loopholes that the rich use to pay no taxes in transferring wealth to their offspring. Almost all of the major Korean companies passed on control to the founder's children without paying any inheritance taxes.

If the world stopped buying Korean products, it wouldn't hurt me. Might hurt the rich much more than the poor.