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Coligny wrote:On this topic... Never give 'lemon grass' to cats... Unless you want to spend a week with felines running on the walls and ceiling like if the were chased by a chinese cook...
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Coligny wrote:On this topic... Never give 'lemon grass' to cats... Unless you want to spend a week with felines running on the walls and ceiling like if the were chased by a chinese cook...
Racist.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Coligny wrote:On this topic... Never give 'lemon grass' to cats... Unless you want to spend a week with felines running on the walls and ceiling like if the were chased by a chinese cook...
Racist.
chokonen888 wrote:That should be the next arrow of Abenomics....round up all the diseased, inbred, stray cats here and sell em to China.
chokonen888 wrote:That should be the next arrow of Abenomics....round up all the diseased, inbred, stray cats here and sell em to China.
chokonen888 wrote:I love cats as well but got no tolerance for the messed up feral ones I've come across in Japan. From being attacked to seeing some really badly deformed kitties...to them using the garden as a litter box, fuck feral cats. I don't think the J-gov will do anything til feline-SARS breaks out though.
chokonen888 wrote:I love cats as well but got no tolerance for the messed up feral ones I've come across in Japan. From being attacked to seeing some really badly deformed kitties...to them using the garden as a litter box, fuck feral cats. I don't think the J-gov will do anything til feline-SARS breaks out though.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:chokonen888 wrote:That should be the next arrow of Abenomics....round up all the diseased, inbred, stray cats here and sell em to China.
Careful. That kind of talk almost lead to a fistfight with Japanese cat lovers.
At a head shop in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya ward, its shelves strewn with Jamaican flag knick-knacks and bongs bearing marijuana motifs, a clerk swiftly shoots down an inquiry on the availability of “dappo habu,” a previously quasi-legal mix of herbs laced with chemical compounds that pack a narcotic punch.
“The police cracked down on it heavily in recent months,” she says. “It used to be easy to find, but you can’t buy it legally anymore.”
Until the middle of last year, dappo habu — literally meaning “loophole herb” and akin to fake marijuana “spice” or “K2” found in the West — was readily available in Tokyo’s nightlife scene. Its rise and fall offer an interesting tale of Japan and how the country is tightening its control of intoxicants, even as the U.S. and other nations are decriminalizing illicit drugs such as marijuana.
Prior to the crackdown, loophole drugs “were sold in the equivalent of a head shop,” says Brett Bull, founder of Japanese crime news site Tokyo Reporter. “The drugs come in what look like tea packets, and those were on display inside the shops.”
Walking through Tokyo’s red-light district, Bull points to a shop hardly bigger than a stall, tucked away on a quiet side street by a strip club and a hair salon. Dappo herb was once openly sold at the shop, he says, but now the lights are out and it’s empty inside.
In its heyday, dappo was often sold as “incense” under English-language brand names like “Assassin,” “Bolt” and the poorly spelled “Illution.” Until the middle of last year, the chemists who made it managed to play a legal cat-and-mouse game, tweaking the molecular makeup of the active ingredients whenever a previous strain was banned. Tinkering in the lab would allow the new variant to slip under the legal radar again for a time, hence the term “loophole” herb.
Those who have smoked dappo describe a range of effects, from euphoria and hallucinations to “bad trip” symptoms such as vomiting and feelings of panic or dread.
“You can taste the chemicals on it when you smoke it. You don’t need much for it to really hit you hard. When I tried it, I couldn’t stop laughing,” said a Japanese woman who has used the drugs on four different occasions and asked to remain anonymous.
However, another erstwhile dappo user who declined to give his name said the experience was an ordeal: “I felt like my eyes were closed, but I could still see as things were rushing past me. I had to get away from my friends and be alone. I’d never do it again.” (See an image of dappo herb packets and vials from this archived Asahi Shimbun report.)
In any event, the loophole began to close last July when Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare launched a public-awareness campaign to rebrand dappo herb, a relatively bland term, as “kiken” (“dangerous”) drug. Along with this came a law with real teeth, allowing Tokyo metropolitan police to visit shops known to peddle the stuff — a right previously limited to pharmaceutical inspectors. A subsequent wave of dappo/kiken busts drove the message home.
At the same time, a media blitz portrayed the perils of using dappo. From a man falling off his bicycle while stoned on it last September, to a motorist driving onto a sidewalk in front of Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo last June, killing one pedestrian and injuring seven, notable disasters on dappo have made waves in the national press.
Celebrities are not immune either. In November of 2013, girl supergroup AK48’s manager Tomonobu Togasaki, then 40, was caught on camera toking a pipe packed with dappo herb in the stairwell of a bar-restaurant in Tokyo’s posh Moto Azabu neighborhood. Given AKB48’s squeaky-clean public image, the images whipped up considerable controversy.
Nao Mazaki, Japan’s representative at Foundation for a Drug-Free World, says the synthetic mash-up nature of drugs like dappo make them especially risky.
“You never know what will happen to your mind and body with these kinds of drugs,” Mazaki said. “You cannot compare kiken drugs with other illegal drugs, as there are thousands of products in the ‘kiken drug’ category. But kiken drugs could be much more dangerous than [other] illegal drugs, since no one knows what they contain.”
Law enforcement has targeted establishments hawking dappo with a vengeance in recent months. In December, Tokyo police busted a shop called Heaven for selling just two pouches of kiken drugs for 3,400 yen ($28). And after a larger raid in January, they scored their largest kiken bust to date in late February, seizing 12 kilograms (26.5 pounds) from an alleged dappo-herb producer in Kanagawa.
“Crackdowns in Japan are fairly effective,” says Jake Adelstein, author of “Tokyo Vice” and editor-in-chief of the publication “Japan Subculture Research Center.”
“Once the police have a law and are motivated, they do a good job. For example, human trafficking of foreign women was a serious problem for Japan in 2005-2006. But by 2009, after laws had been put on the books, the trafficking in foreign women significantly declined,” Adelstein says. (Japanese police officials hadn’t responded to a request for comment as of the publishing of this report.)
The story of dappo herb isn’t the first case of a controlled substance rocketing to popularity and then getting pushed virtually out of existence in a police crackdown. As recently as the early 2000s, psilocybin — a.k.a. “magic mushrooms” — was openly hawked on the streets of nightlife hubs like Tokyo’s Center Gai and Kabuki-cho.
However, when the World Cup came to Japan in 2002, the authorities decided that allowing the open use of hallucinogens wasn’t a good idea. As a result, the trade was taken off the streets and had practically disappeared before the first games began.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan- ... 2015-03-29
Coligny wrote:Meanwhile i still need 10 minutes of negociation whenever i need a box or loxonin in most drug stores...
Which is supposed to be OTC anyway...
Coligny wrote:Meanwhile i still need 10 minutes of negociation whenever i need a box or loxonin in most drug stores...
Which is supposed to be OTC anyway...
Taro Toporific wrote:Coligny wrote:Meanwhile i still need 10 minutes of negociation whenever i need a box or loxonin in most drug stores...
Which is supposed to be OTC anyway...
The LD50 of Loxonin make it perfect for suicide, hence your purchasing problem.
wuchan wrote:and why it hasn't been approved by the FDA.
Takechanpoo wrote:Cannabinoid, which is included in marijuana, destroys brain nerves.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/26/7039.short
Russell wrote:Takechanpoo wrote:Cannabinoid, which is included in marijuana, destroys brain nerves.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/26/7039.short
It doesn't say that Cannabinoids destroys brain nerves.
It does say that Cannabinoids appear to influence the formation and refinement of thalamocortical axons. But there are a lot of factors that do the same. Hell, even exposing someone to a stimulus-deprived environment likely does similar things as Cannabinoids. Or drinking alcohol...
Takechanpoo wrote:Cannabinoid, which is included in marijuana, destroys brain nerves.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/26/7039.short
kurogane wrote:Allowing for the usual retardation of the species, hemp isn't weed, and weed isn't hemp. I've smoked the wrong one to no effect and tried to tie the other one before realising it might have been smoke. And my ex Father inlaw went hippy and sold properly cultivated weed to amputees after the surrender.
kurogane wrote:I was talking about Take being retarded there, btw, not you.
I have smoked the industrial stuff before and it's rubbish headache weed. Interesting stuff about the rest of it though. That would make whatever my ex FinL grew the native sort I would imagine, as he talked about getting his original stock from the ditch, as you said. It sounded like he put some serious work into it while he was doing it. For old school smoking weed it sounded like good stuff.
... have a very hard time finding nice weed...
About legalization of cannabis in Canada
vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp... Published October 4, Heisei 30
With the enactment of the "Canadian Canadian Act on Marijuana" that was adopted on June 21, we inform you of the following for Japanese nationals.
1. In Canada, possession and use of cannabis (marijuana) will be legalized from 17th October this year.
2. Meanwhile, in Japan in the Cannabis Control Law, the possession / transfer of cannabis (including purchase) etc is illegal and subject to punishment.
3. This provision may be applied not only in Japan but also in foreign countries.
4. Japanese nationals residing in Japan and Japanese tourists should observe these Japanese laws and take sufficient precautions not to purchase/use cannabis (as well as foods and drinks containing cannabis), even outside of Japan.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Yeah, good luck with that, eh!
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