Mike Oxlong wrote:Got to wonder how many "suicides" happen this way. "Jim" wasn't tiny by most standards...6'2" or thereabouts, and easily 110 kilo or better. If that dose would put a rhino like that down for nearly a day, what would it do to some poor, drunk J-waif?
i'm sure lots of them. one thing i do remember, was the guy claimed to be a photographer, and showed me some of his 'work' on his ipod. they were nearly all j-girls in various states of undress, looking completely passed out.
incidentally, in most of the places of the world where rohypnol is still legally dispensed, the manufacturer has put a green dye in it, so that if it's slipped into someone's drink, it will turn the whole drink green. not surprisingly, japan isn't one of those countries... it is still dispensed as a white tablet, odorless and colourless when dissolved in liquid.
how do i know this? a couple years back i was having sleeping problems and went to one of these 'mental health' clinics for something to help me sleep. they dispensed two different tablets, both to be taken at bedtime. only upon looking them up online did i find out that one was halcion (to put me to sleep) and the other was flunitrazepam ('to keep me asleep'). otherwise known as rohypnol. and they gave me a 2 week supply.
edit: since we're on the subject, it's also worth mentioning that the clinic i went to (on midosuji near shinsaibashi station) was run by a guy whose degree was awarded in korea. and a japanese speaking friend searched his name online after i told him that i'd been dispensed rohypnol and was asked to remove my shirt to take a blood sample from my arm. the guy had been arrested a year previously for sexually assaulting a female patient (he'd asked her out on a date and then threw himself on her later in the evening). the charges were mysteriously dropped.