nippon and wacky tobacky

[Anonymous No.]

I hope this is otaku culture enough.

What does /jp/ think about Japan's laws on cannabis?
Why does their society shun it and claim it ruins your life, but see public drunkenness as normal and acceptable?

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/420chan/

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/japan-shocked-by-marijuan_n_170568.html

>Late last year, after four Waseda University students were arrested for marijuana possession, university administrators called a press conference, bowed deeply to the dozens of reporters assembled and issued a formal apology. "We are sorry for causing so much trouble," Tomoki Waragai, the humiliated executive director of the university, told reporters.

>They vowed to conduct a comprehensive survey of the student body to determine the extent of the problem. And university administrators sent an email to all students warning them that students "foolish enough" to try marijuana "all too often end up physically and mentally ruined, perhaps leading lives of crime. There is no 'innocent' or 'harmless' way to take illegal drugs. In Japan, possession alone is sufficient to lead to the most dire of social punishments. Engaging in drug-related activity is utter stupidity."

[Anonymous No.]

I find it weird since magic mushrooms were completely legal in Japan until 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_psilocybin_mushrooms#Japan

[Anonymous No.]

When I was 9 my friends and I used to hold our respective breaths until we got dizzy and delirious.

Is this drugs?