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Originally Posted by sarasi
Well, I think the incidents with Noriko Sakai and Manabu Oshio last year make it clear that there is a minor drug culture in some areas of society here, and that some celebrities are well into it. In the clubs in Shibuya and Roppongi you could find 覚せい剤 (stimulants for those who don't read Japanese) if you were interested, and as I mentioned above I also know people who regularly smoke marijuana, so to say there is no drug culture at all here is inaccurate in my opinion. Marijuana use, while nothing like KungMartin was assuming it is, is a bit more widespread than you might think.
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I`ve never said that drugs are impossible to find - but having grown up (unfortunately) very very deep in the "drug culture" of the US... It would really be a stretch to call the small strings of people into drugs in Japan a "drug culture". You honestly could go to a thousand parties and concerts in Japan and really never encounter anything at all... Whereas in the US, you`d be lucky to
not find something at every single one. In the end, it really is social suicide even if you don`t get caught and into any legal trouble.
When it comes to availability, I think that dirtyroboto hit it on the head pretty well when he said
"If you don't mind hanging around in the same place as people who will rob you or spike your drinks, that is. When I say Japan I mean Tokyo, oh! when I say Tokyo I mean a small part of Tokyo."