We'll keep a close eye on quasi-legal herbs because they can be a stepping stone to using stimulant drugs or cocaine.

A Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department official. More than 200 people were taken to hospital due to health problems caused by quasi-legal “herbs” in Tokyo in 2012, compared to just 11 cases in 2011. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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    Wakarimasen

    The slippery slope theory.

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    Ricky Kaminski

    codswollop.

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    Frungy

    Oh nonsense. The real risk is that they're unregulated and could be anothing from bath salts to rat poison. The "gateway" theory has been disproven so many times that it is bad joke. The problem with the research in the 60's was that they mistook correlation with causation. Those with addictive personalities tend to find and abuse substances, whether its alcohol, cocaine or chocolate makes very little difference, they tend to gravitate towards the strongest substance available.

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    avigator

    Get rid of all of them. Go Malaysian and Indonesian, and Singaporean style.(but not gaijin style).

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    Lowly

    What Bob sed,

    "Legalize it"

    And you wouldn't have to worry about these quasi-mind altering chem lab experiments.

    And avigator needs Gangnam style.

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    MeanRingo

    Right on Lowly. 100%. Legalize the soft stuff so that fewer people feel the need to do the hocus pocus.

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