I know that there are really big open air markets in Spain, Portugal and Switzerland. I saw a documentary regarding drugs in Spain and people were literally in line on the street to get their fixes (H & Cocaine mainly), there were hundreds on these lines. Once they hear the cops are coming they just disburse and as soon as they leave the street, back to business. I don't remember the name of that doc., but you can find it easily on YouTube.
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hexxx that was amazing to hear about South Africa.
I've never been to Amsterdam.
From what I hear in Spain there is open air markets but it's not quite like America. From what I hear, like, gypsies (? dont even know what a gypsy is really) sell in like 'gypsy towns' or 'red light districts' and you have to go in like a tent or something and there will be a person with like a huge amount of drugs on a table or something and you buy from them. In like closed communities though.
Theodore, from what people have told me, Japan is solidly an amphetamine country. It's far and away the most popular recreational and productivity-enhancing drug there. I used to hear about inhalants (yuck!) being popular there, but mostly among kids, who couldn't get anything else. For some reason, marijuana seems to carry a real stigma in Japan. It's not popular, and laws against it are heavily enforced. Drug use of any kind carries a heavy stigma there, so I'd imagine you might have a bit of a time getting anyone to admit to you they use, just for reasons of saving face. There were definitely a lot of drug tourists from northeast Asia in the party islands of Thailand when I was there! People from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, etc. will dare to do a lot of things when they're far from home and anyone they know.
Yea I hear there is a lot of speed there. I once got smoked up free on a hash-joint in Hiroshima in the Atomic Bomb Peace Park (heh, I smoked weed in the middle of the Nuclear bomb memorial park). They said a gram of low quality hash was about $50, so it's not popular there and yes there is a lot of stigma to it.
But what about opiates, like heroin? I'd think heroin or opium would be available there given it being close to the Golden Triangle, but I've never heard of opiates there.
How is speed sold there? Like, open air markets in Japan, or do you have to knwo someone? Do you have to go through, like, Yakuza members to get speed?
EuphoricNod, I'm not trying to learn how to score drugs here, I'm just asking how the drug markets in certain countries are. I know it kinda sounds like I'm asking how to get drugs, but it's not. I know how to get drugs in America - you either know someone, and in some cases you can buy it in open air drug markets run by gangs. But I was wondering how people get drugs in other countries, how available they are, et cetera. I'm curious, because I can't imagine anywhere else in the world having such a blatant market like America does.
Not sourcing or anything, but I know it sounds like it. Just, I want to know the Drug Culture of other countries, and how do their drug markets work.
I don't mean to sound racist here, and I know lacey k is gonna say I'm racist here, but... like, in America the open air drug markets are run usually by ethnic groups like blacks or hispanics (on the street, that is). A lot of countries, like Japan, don't have significant ethnic populations, so it's just weird to me. Not to mention that many of these countries have such a different culture, where individuality is not a virtue and there is a much larger stigma. I'm not being racist here, but if you know anything about, say, Japanese culture, you'd understand how impossible it would be to have a drug market like America has over there.
Like in America, there definately is 'gang culture', which has a lot to do with your ethnicity. This is not being racist, it's just a lot of the illegality forces these groups to have very closed barriers to entry. In Japan, there is not glorification of gangs like there is in America, they value order and 'machinism' over everything. If you think I'm being racist, then it's because you don't understand Japan at all. Within America there are lots of different cultures, like black culture, et cetera, that have different rules than society at large may value. In Japan, there is only Japanese culture. In America, while I wouldn't say we are a racist nation, we are a multitude of large ethnically based cultures that are accepted.
I can understand open air drug markets in like Spain. But I know given how the culture is in Japan, there is no way they'd have open air drug markets. I'm not being racist here. I know you'll, think I'm racist, but I'd challenge that by saying that maybe it's because you don't understand foreign cultures.
I'd almost say that, compared to America, Japan doesn't use drugs. It's just the cultures are so different, so that's gonna impact how their drug culture is as well.
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