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Nagoyaguy · Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 425 Location: Aichi, Japan

Word of advice. Do NOT do drugs in Japan. In fact, if you are around any people who are doing drugs, even smoking a joint, LEAVE. Leave immediately. If the cops get wind of what was happening and bust those people, YOU the gaijin will be the first person fingered by the locals as the supplier. The police will believe the locals over you.

Then, you will lose your job. Automatically. No school or eikaiwa will want you, even if you are innocent.

then, you will do time. As was said before, the police can hold you for a month without charging you. You may or may not get a lawyer. IF you get and meet a lawyer, a police officer will be in the room at all times when you are speaking to your lawyer. There are NO confidentiality laws. Any time you have a visitor in prison, you MUST speak Japanese at all time. Again, a guard/cop will be in the room with you at all times. In that month, you WILL confess to your crime. You will be given a confession letter written in Japanese , you will sign it, and a judge will accept it in court. Sayonara.

If you think about goint to Thailand or wherever to indulge over your vacation, think again. As was said, even trace elements of drugs in your blood count as "possession" in Japan. Which means jail time, deportation, and so on. Doesnt matter that you consumed the drugs outside of Japan.

The good news is, beer is available from coin operated vending machines and can be consumed anywhere, at any time.

Lover · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 86

Lover · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 86

fizayded wrote:

well, strictly from an economical standpoint, I believe the going rate for a dub or joint is gonna be about 5000 yen, or about 50 bucks. So pretty expensive, I know a guy who could probbbbably get stuff, but then again, ehh... it can wait, and least I wont get years in california just for getting high. The drugs of choice in this country are alcohol, cigarettes and work.

You forgot sex!!!!! Twisted Evil

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

Doglover · Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 305 Location: Kansai

There is currently an Australian girl locked up in an Indonesian jail Was found at Bali airport with 4 kilos of marijuana in her surf bag. She says she doesnt know about it and it was planted there.

She is looking at a mandatory 20 year sentence if she pleads guilty and the death penalty if she pleads innocent. the sentencing phase will be announced shortly.

By the way 4 Australians including one woman, got busted last week in Southeast Asia for drugs. In Thailand I think they machine-gun convicted drug-runners.

Nagoyaguy · Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 425 Location: Aichi, Japan

ryuro · Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 91

Hey,

Tokyo has one of the most amazing clubbing scenes in the world- and drugs are a part of it.

And the Japanese are kidding themselves when they try to tell you or anyone else that Japanese don't do drugs.

Yes, they're slightly harder to come by.

Yes, they're obscenely expensive.

Yes, you have to make a connection to find them.

Yes, you're TOTALLY f---ed if you get caught as everyone has rightly pointed out here. However, during all my years of clubbing in Japan I've known no one nor have I ever even HEARD of anyone being caught (only the cases of people mailing/carrying drugs into Japan).

Do 'em or don't- but they will cost you a heap of money and the consequences are heinous if caught.

Lister100 · Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 106

Beer and cigarrettes's are cheap. Just change your diet while you're here. There's always a way to escape reality, or in the case of Japan the reality of your surreality, if thats what you're aiming to do.

joncharles · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Beijing

Recently three U.S. servicemen were caught with E. They claimed to have gotten it from Roppongi. The Tokyo Government cracked down on Shinjuku a while ago and now they say they plan on cleaning up Roppongi. Availability will get even worse.

Another point, I friend of mine in Kanagowa, got popped and spent almost a month in Jail. He lost his ECC job, missed the birth of his daughter, and eventually aquitted. His crime was that he associated with known drug users and dealers. So the police assumed he used and sold as well. (Truth is he did until he got married.) He is still in Japan and was able to get a new job. He now has sworn off drugs.. except a brewski now and then.

It still amazes me when I used to work for Nova, while in the teacher's room, how open many of the younger teachers were in bragging about scoring and using drugs.

Lover · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 86

JimDunlop2 wrote:

Before you assume otherwise, please read Nick Baker's own account of what happened (here: http://www.justicefornickbaker.org/en/n_letter.htm ). It wasn't quite so simple as just claiming that a stranger gave him a random suitacase to carry into Japan... I think most people wouldn't be quite so gullible as to accept a straight-forward offer... "Hey mate... Wanna make a hunded quid? Take this through customs for me, will you?"
It didn't happen that way.

Look no matter how a stranger convinced him to bring suitcase through custums. A suitcase he does not know what is inside when the world is all parnoid about terrorist, and throughout modern times about drugs. I'm sorry I think their a much better causes than his.
In just about every country the law states bringing drugs into that country is a crime.

Anyway, I don't want to start a debate. In fact, I am not going to this thread anymore. I just think people should think twice before having anything to do with drugs while living or traveling abroad. As someone posted a foreigner caught with drugs makes all of us here in Japan look bad.

fizayded · Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Machida, Tokyo

SEndrigo · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 437

It's not actual porn....it's PORN COMIC BOOKS, so get it right ! Smile

Who needs sex when you can get 80-90 hour workweeks, and porn comic books at the local convenience store?

What better high can you get than that????
Laughing

But I must say, the (real, not caricature) girls on the cover of those comic books are absolute stunners !!

It's true, good covers DO sell books eh !

ndorfn · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 126

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

Irishmark: as i understand it the ecstacy scene her is so small or non-existent that the locals wouldn't know the difference between MDMA and ketamine/speed/caffeine if they were offered a controlled test.

Assume you will never have a tab for as long as you are here. If you happen to be the one in a million then you will be lucky.

Don't bring it in. Don't look for it. The penalties are too severe.

If it happens to find you anyway, thank Buddha and rejoice.

ps. 20 hrs with only 1 cigarette and I seem to be over the (1st) hump.

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan