[edelweiss]

Before 2002 all those people who were legally ingesting mushrooms were a part of the drug culture. I'm sure farmed drugs like marijuana and cocaine may be harder to come by but like I said I have seen obvious meth users in Tokyo. You only need easily found chemicals to make the stuff.

I don't hang out in clubs or bars when I visit Japan, I rarely stay out past 10PM and I have still seen the drug addicts. They are mostly stumbling around in the early morning still wearing yesterdays clothing. The last one I saw was trying to cut into line for the bathroom at a Starbucks in Harajuku at 4 in the afternoon! She was skinny, looked sweaty, smelled vaguely of gasoline and was broken out in meth bumps. I mean, she still had a nice handbag but she was otherwise a hot mess.

And what about prescriptions? Most urban kids around here don't bother with street drugs these days. They hit up mom and dad's medicine cabinet. Is that something seen in Japan at all?