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Police in Osaka said Friday that a reckless driving incident involving five vehicles left three people injured.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 9 p.m. on Thursday. TBS reported that a man was driving dangerously along a road in Higashi Yodogawa Ward when he crashed into one motorbike and four cars one after the other, leaving three people injured.
Police arrested the driver of the car, Tsubasa Fujisaki, 26, and said he admitted to being under the influence of a "dangerous drug" at the time. "Dangerous drugs" is the new term being used by authorities to replace "loophole drugs," which refer to hallucinogenic herbs.
Fujisaki was quoted by police as saying he had inhaled an herb, but didn't remember anything that happened.
© Japan Today
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nandakandamanda
Loophole drugs, or Dappo Dorag-gu, have had their name changed recently to Kiken Dorag-gu to please the public hoping that a change of name will alert innocent buyers to the dangerous nature of them. Now users cannot say anymore "Oh, I didn't know!"
In English however, this sounds a bit OTT, as if other drugs are not dangerous. "Dangerous Drugs" is now the official designation for herbs sprinkled with essences of quasi-legal fairy dust concoctions.
So what do we call genuinely dangerous drugs now?
nath
Actually this is a little strange in that they weren't called 'loophole drugs', they were called 'loophole herbs', so the article is wrong. It appears that the new name however is in fact 'dangerous drugs' (kiken doraggu).
I think you mean 'other' dangerous drugs.
Horenzo
"Police in Osaka said Friday that a reckless driving incident involving five vehicles left three people injured"
I saw this nutjob last night, playing catch ball with himself in the middle of the street at 11:30 pm.
This fool actually placed a bounceback screen in the middled of the street. Why would not this fool go to a park. Did not
this fool know he could cause an accident with his racist stupid alcoholic azz.
smithinjapan
Sorry, but simply calling something 'kiken' isn't going to change the fact that users will use it and not give one iota what name police strap onto it so long as there's no punishment for smoking it.
Disillusioned
These losers are giving pot a bad reputation. This synthetic poop is far worse than real pot and the more incidents that occur involving this synthetic crap the worse it gets for real pot. Real pit is a wonder gruff and treats many illnesses and afflictions. This synthetic crap just sends people crazy!
Mirai Hayashi
Oh, and thats suppose to make it better?
nath
Actually, this is incorrect. First, the herbs themselves are not psychotropic, it's the chemicals they sprinkle onto them. Second, the drugs are not hallucinogenic, they are stimulants or depressants - the people doing them do not hallucinate.
CrazyJoe
What's next after these designer drugs, bath salts?
Crush Them
What a silly new drug designation from the silly people in government.
Its too bad the silly people in government can get people killed like this. Their little renaming is not helping anyone. Their little prohibition on marijuana is getting people killed.