The Dosage is not in each Pill!
Thats the daily dose.
aka 9 (?) Pills!
lol. I have this really funny story involving bron i gotta tell you all when I get back to the states. What you said shed some light on the situation for me.
Does that mean I have to eat like 40 pills to get anything? I assume this wouldnt be too unsafe, as they taste really good and sometimes I eat them as an after-meal mint lol. If it's daily dose for all the listed ingredients, I imagine it would be okay then?
and the cop factor. I always wondered how the fucks in other countries compare to ones in the USA
There aren 't many cops at all in Japan. And the ones you see, many of them are very small and short lol. I've seen cops, many, many cops, who are like 70+ years old and 4 feet tall. Many
gaijin I've talked to say how funny that is and how funny it would be to try to knock them over by blowing on them or the like. They are mostly for ornamental purposes in Japan though, with fancy garb that would be more expensive to clean than to try to solve any crime and possibly break a sweat or a bit of dirt on those nice clothes.
In japan even crimes like petty theft are extremely rare, and the
many times I've been tempted to steal stuff here, I can't bring myself to even consider doing it because they are just so... trusting. They don't even check my train pass when I fucking barge through the wrong gates and the alarm goes off, they just take my word, or usually don't even bother after me.
Anyways, yea, Japan is totally different to other countries in regards to drugs. You guys really have no idea how strict the social norms are, that's why things like pornography and twisted stuff like Manga (like Rapeman, the hero who rapes women who 'deserve' it and then they thank him!) and filth porn are very, very widespread. Japanese are extremely reserved and bound to social norms, and want everyone to think good of them, even strangers, where as the West we don't even care what our parents think for the most part (ie marriages, job futures, etc). So that's why things that you enjoi in private, like a book or TV, are so lewd and extreme in Japan. Obviously, privacy is ensured for such goods (ie the register worker is behind a foggy window, etc).
And I don't think I'm saying this out of ignorance, I actually did find drugs in Japan. But I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to. It can be found but its just not easy to get, it's ridiculously expensive, and you can't make it public. I think what is going on in Japan, is that the Yakuza controls everything in crime - obviously.
As you may know, the Yakuza is the largest crime organization in the world. In contrast to organizations like MI-6 and the FBI, the japanese crime control and police units do not try to control and be dominate over crime but rather just want to make sure they do not hurt law abiding citizens. This is in contrast with the FBI, which you could say has an almost obsessive desire (not to say this is a bad thing, just different) to make sure that no gang has any power, and that the FBI is the only power.
As such, Yakuza controls all the drugs coming into the country being such a dominant group that is left alone to operate and monopolize. You won't hear of any other gangs besides Yakuza in japan (although there are a couple different groups, not many though, but you certainly won't hear of mafia or triad).
Now that you know the background, what this means is that the police have made it clear that they do not want widespread drug use in Japan, and in exchange they will not be hunted down FBI style. It's a compromise, whereas the FBI would never even bother talking to a Crips leader unless it was about how many more years he wants to add to his sentence.