Shrooms?

[lv426]

Just came back from a little excersion to Japan with a friend, are shrooms really the only legal drug in Japan. I think someone said they were, pluse we saw some sort of board outside an adult shop advertising them.

[duff_o_josh]

i thought they were recently criminalized, but that is just what i heard through word of mouth.

[Miko-Kokoro]

Oh, wow...I hadn't any idea they were legal, They certainly aren't here. In large doses it's a poison.

[lv426]

They used to be legal in the UK untill a couple of months ago, I think most drugs are a poison. Nicotine is quite a dangerous poison in its pure form, watch Full Time Killer and you can see how easy it is to make a leathal poison from a couple ciggerets :) lol

But I was suprised by the amount of ganja products avalible, there were whole shops dedicated to it. However as I understand it ganja is not popular at all in Japan, and its a fairly high class B drug and very hard to get.

I guess its more an image thing, many people had t-shirts about it "I love ganja" and stuff like that.

[GaijinPunch]

They have been illegal since Sprint of 2001 I believe it was... maybe 2002. This is also what I've heard, but you saw a noticeable decrease in people advertising them... real ones anyway. The law is not strictly enforced as far as I can tell. There used to be more people selling them on the streets, and quality was most likely a lot better then.

[-Rudel-]

yeah, I don't think the laws are enforced to much.

Here in Okinawa, they sell them on the covered streets, in the open where anyone, and everyone can see them.

I was amazed to see so many and so easiably buyable.

[deadhippo]

I guess its more an image thing, many people had t-shirts about it "I love ganja" and stuff like that.
they probably dont know what it means
one guy i know didint know what his "I have a hard on" pin meant :blush: :lol:

[PopCulturePooka]

they probably dont know what it means
one guy i know didint know what his "I have a hard on" pin meant :blush: :lol:
Maybe.

Although plenty of the young people I knew who wore pot paraphanalia knew all to well what it was.

Fujisawa area especially seemed to be drug happy.

[lv426]

Hummm still probably not a good idear if your a gaijin to buy them, Japan seems particually harsh on stuff like this. Although I did have a friend that said he saw poppers being sold in markets openly, although I have see that in the UK as well.

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

Magic mushroom

Regulation copes with a severe punishment. :eek:

1.Export / import / production
It is a 5 million or less yen fine by one year or more of terminable penal servitude or an extenuation.
Two or more punishments are imposed simultaneously.
2.Possession, transfer, and inheritance .
It will be a 3 million or less yen fine by ten or less years of penal servitude or an extenuation for one year or more.
Two or more punishments are imposed simultaneously.
3.Cultivation.
It is a 5 million or less yen fine by one year or more of terminable penal servitude or an extenuation.
Two or more punishments are imposed simultaneously.
4.Advertisement.
Three or less years of penal servitude, or a 500,000 or less yen fine.
Two or more punishments are imposed simultaneously.



http://www.fukushihoken.metro.tokyo.jp/yakumu/mushroom/mushroom.html

http://www.pref.nagano.jp/eisei/yakumu/mush/mushroom.htm

[lv426]

Ah thankyou for clearing that up, lol seamed a little too good to be true ;)

So I guess people have to make do with drink to get themselves merry!

[GaijinPunch]

Does anyone else find it fisshy that production, import, and export entail a noticeably softer sentence?

[Rich303]

They used to be legal in the UK untill a couple of months ago

That is right.Until very recently you could openly buy magic mushrooms.
They were selling them on Oxford street.
It was someting to do with some legal loophole which meant they were classified as a food.
Now it has changed, so I can no longer legally enjoy laughing my head off, or the spectacle of a chair turning into Barney the Dinosaur.

Although I've not been there, I've heard mushrooms are quite big in Thailand -you can buy 'mushroom milkshakes'.

P.S Like the name,'lv426' - you must be a bit of an 'Alien' fan...

[lv426]

Actually looking back more carefully it does, and take a look at this.

"2.Possession, transfer, and inheritance .
It will be a 3 million or less yen fine by ten or less years of penal servitude or an extenuation for one year or more.
Two or more punishments are imposed simultaneously."

Ten years seams a little harsh, forgive me so sounding stupid but what is "penal servitude" I'm not up on my law jargon.

[GaijinPunch]

Ten years seams a little harsh, forgive me so sounding stupid but what is "penal servitude" I'm not up on my law jargon.

Means serving time in the pen. IE - prison time.