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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
Prohibition is working in Japan, and it is working admirably. Japan doesn't have heroin or crack addicts selling their bodies so they can get enough money for another fix or hit. The jails are not full of dealers and other drug violators, and thousands of people aren't being killed here every year in gang wars.
Japan doesn't give offenders a slap on the wrist, then turn them free to break more laws. Offenders are seriously punished, their names are published, and they are scorned.
BTW, the picture you posted shows an Edo-period Japanese woman holding a tobacco pipe.
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I have to agree with Sangetsu. There are several reasons why it is true, but the drug laws in the US are not as successful as in Japan. Partially it is geography, politics and social attitudes, but the strict laws in Japan have helped keep it a country that is not full of drug addicts, dealers, rehab clinics and people committing crimes like robbery and prostitution to get drug money on the scale it happens in the US.
I don't have world statistics, but I would think that Japan's drug policy could be considered on the more successful side.