I was reading the news and I saw this really interesting topic…

–Students must not be misled by the false claims that certain types of
illegal drugs can “alleviate tiredness”, “make you feel refreshed” or
“help you to lose weight”–

Immediately this begins, assuming it is not paraphrased, with utter misinformation. don’t believe that stimulants will alleviate tiredness? why are they called stimulants and used by so many people for that purpose? why provide misinformation for students?

–Illegal drugs such as cannabis and stimulants
not only lures users to crime, but also incurs serious and often
irreversible consequences to your health.–

now they have attempted to provide us with a blanket statement that includes all illegal drugs and no legal ones. lures one to crime? it IS a crime, but who sees it as such in and of itself? therefore the need to try and scare people with this kind of stuff:

–Simply possessing illegal
drugs will result in severe social punishments, leading to a wasted life–

“Students must not be misled by the false claims that certain types of
illegal drugs can “alleviate tiredness”, “make you feel refreshed” or
“help you to lose weight”. Illegal drugs such as cannabis and stimulants
not only lures users to crime, but also incurs serious and often
irreversible consequences to your health. Simply possessing illegal
drugs will result in severe social punishments, leading to a wasted life.”

basically the only thing they have said is that you will become a criminal if you do it (TRUE) and that severe social punishments will cause for your life to become wasted… sadly this is probably the extent of their knowledge on the subject, and this from a college? get your money back is my advice!

Of course alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies see it as a threat to their profiteering, and therefor invest in politicians and media to make the “right” choices.

Now, what I do blame on the University is the alarmist rethoric being used to handle this (from a mail sent to my Waseda student account):

“Students must not be misled by the false claims that certain types of
illegal drugs can “alleviate tiredness”, “make you feel refreshed” or
“help you to lose weight”. Illegal drugs such as cannabis and stimulants
not only lures users to crime, but also incurs serious and often
irreversible consequences to your health. Simply possessing illegal
drugs will result in severe social punishments, leading to a wasted life.
All students of Waseda University must be aware of the consequences of
illegal drug use, and act responsibly. Please be reminded that Waseda
University inflicts severe punishments when dealing with such illegal
activity.
In light of recent events, Waseda University will be taking strong
measures to prevent future occurrences of this kind. As part of this, we
will be holding an online survey via Waseda-Net Portal regarding illegal
drugs, and also reprinting a feature article on illegal drugs in the
November 20th issue of the Waseda Weekly.”

This kind of text was made by university officials to appeal to adult people?
Give me a break…

Or, if you’re a lawyer with an obsession for latin: cum hoc ergo propter hoc.

Its so much easier to blame that nasty drug than the person who obtained it, rolled it up, set fire to it and stuck it in their mouth.

I’m not trying to argue if Holland sux or doesn’t. The fact is, that even that moron from Waseda couldn’t argue about Dutch colonizing policy, or any other historical feature, positive or negative.He won’t be able to argue if the Dutch are really “lazy as dodos” (while I wonder what EXACTLY makes you say that) or if their art is “silly”. Because the only thing that impressed him was that you can easily obtain weed there.
Yep, I was under the impression that all this “West-East European hatred was over like 20 years ago.Now many Easterners flock the Dutch job market, one wonders why.

So we can expect video games, iPods, the internet, bowling allies, sports games, anything that requires a helmet to ride, and girlfriends or boyfriends to be outlawed soon too then, right?

Wake up kiddies. Alcohol is not good for you. It has been known to trigger liver dysfunction and clinical depression. Drink it at your peril.

Wake up kiddies. Tobacco is not good for you. It has been known to trigger lung cancer and emphysema. Smoke it at your peril.

Wake up kiddies. French fries are not good for you. They have been known to trigger high cholesterol and obesity. Eat them at your peril.

Wake up kiddies. Butter and/or margarine are not good…

WTF? I guess the population in general should thank you for being the self-appointed authoritarian figure and to tell us what we should be doing with our time.

The derogitory term “narc” was coined precisely to describe asshats like yourself.

If you doubt that, name just one playstation or nintendo game that is not significantly enhanced with some THC in the system. All of these games are at least 200% more enjoyable when you are baked. Coincidence? I think not.

If you are still in doubt, toke up and play some Katamari Damacy. You will see……..

remember that millions of people are dying from prescription drugs and alcohol regularly. huge industries are created around the marketing of these drugs, and great lengths are taken to downplay the side effects and increase their social acceptance. drug testers will give positive feedback about new drugs they test, or they are not asked to test again.

herb is a plant, one which has a history of assisting man through his difficulties, for thousands of years. some of the most influential people in the world used it, including some of the founding fathers. the constitution was written on hemp, wars were fought over it and won because of it. despite the mind opening stress reducing abilities of this plant, most important are it’s industrial applications. imagine if we could grow (to mention a few) our own fuel, food, paper, clothing and medicine with the same seed?

Don’t go to Japan. Go elsewhere. We don’t need you, we don’t want you.

It becomes dangerous when people start to become complacent.

THAT is the problem.

You must be smoking something.

The Dutch were one of the most destructive colonizing forces during the heyday of Western European to the nether regions of the world.

Now look at them – high as a kite and lazy as dodos, with very little productivity except for spouting out some silly artistic ideas.

In this case, the Japanese students got caught with frikkin glow lamps in their room, right? Thus even they would have to be arrested, right?

I always support legalization of marijuana, as it hopefully is a way to keep lefties at home baked, rather than out throwing rocks at Starbucks (on the days they aren’t drinking lattes there) or worse, voting.

But drugs are for tools anyway.
Much better highs are to be had from doing something with your life, but the effort, the effort.

Now, where’s my drink?

“if it is on tv it must be true!”- 1950′s america… japan has a very long way to go.

To make things clearer, care to indicate why you feel this way?

Not really, as I don’t really want to distract the thread.

On the other hand, legalising it would stop people droning on at length about how wonderful it is…

To make things clearer, care to indicate why you feel this way?

But the thing is about what is believed by the majority of the people, and unfortunately not the scientific fact. Moreover, it’s about legal or not.

The outlets where you can buy Cannabis have periodic raids but are hardly ever fined. However, recently, a lot of these outlets have been forced to close, because the majority of the people in Holland’s border areas have had it with the tourists that only come over for the drugs.

I wish weed would get legalized here and Japan could get over their stupid stigma about such a harmless drug. I miss Ms. Mary Jane

Good point that people getting busted in Japan only have themselves to blame, as everyone should know the score.

I’m not sure if the rest of the west is actually moving toward decriminalisation, but it is accepted in the UK at least that people will do grass and E, etc, so as well as prevention there is also harm reduction, and sufficiently vocal campaign groups to say that stuff like the above about gateway drugs is total nonsense.

In Scotland, IIRC, one in three hospital accident & emergency admissions are due to booze, yet per person spending on addicts is in the 100s to 1 in favour of drug abusers.

There have been thousands upon thousands of studies that have proven the gateway theory false. The truth is tobacco is a larger “gateway drug”, about 70% of hard drug users are daily tobacco users.

So it is foreigners leading Japanese astray (not!)

Anyone want to buy some? HeHe!

Honestly, Japan, join the rest of the westernized/civilized world in the movement towards decriminalization, will you?

That being said, if you’re dumb enough to carry in Japan, as nutty as they are about it, then you probably deserve to get hammered.