MrMessiah wrote:nick47 wrote:hexagon son wrote:i wish i was, then i could compose and listen to BoC's new album in my mind.
drugs are pretty rare in japan correct?
Strict ass laws, harsh punishment.
Back in my teens I had a rare condition that paralysed me for a year and a half, during which time I went down to about 9 stone and thin as a rake (I'm 6'3 so...) Anyway, not long after recovering I flew to see my then girlfriend in Japan and got called over at Japanese-side customs for questions and patting down for drugs (long hair hippy type I get that a lot). Guy got down to my hip-bones and almost shat a brick. "WHAT ARE THOSE". "They're... my hips?" I don't know if he thought if they were concealed drugs packages or sidearms. Didn't get stripsearched, but they did spend the next 5 minutes trying to dismantle my shoes. True story.
I can believe that. I've been back and forth from the US to Japan 10 times over the last 6 years and never once have I been hassled by the Japanese authorities at customs. But my friend comes to Japan from the US for the first time this summer and he get's the same spill as you did. I think that maybe they thought he was bringing seeds in, as he was coming to visit an American and not a Japanese. In my experience, drugs are pretty rare here as I have only once came across somebody smoking pot in an alleyway behind a club in Osaka. The punishment for just possession of just a single joint is pretty strict. Unless you can grow it in your apartment inconspicuously, you're probably not gonna find any drugs here. And if you do find pot, the quality is not very good, and it's probably very expensive. I really do think they believe pot will "dumb down" the population.