Bet Japanese prison is cleaner than most Letsrunner's mom's basement rooms
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Two threads about this in the top 10, but nothing on the front page. Where's the coverage at Brojos/Gault?
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Article says "The suspect was arrested on suspicion of smuggling approximately 12 pills containing marijuana by sending them from a U.S. airport to Osaka's Kansai Airport using an international courier service on Feb. 19."
That sounds much worse than just "forgetting" about them in your carry-on. Sending them by courier means it was 100% intentional and you knew it was wrong. Didn't he brag on a podcast once about traveling with THC or CBD and "nothing bad happening yet"? Yikes.
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Is anybody able to play his podcasts on Spotify? I was trying to find the pinpoint reference of when he is talking about the gummies but it seems that they've been taken down... It's probably evidence in his trial at this point.
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Seroiusmatter wrote:
Up to 7 yrs. Japan and Asia in general has some strict cannabis laws.
fairly lenient by asian standards... many countries like camobida, indonesia, sri lanka, previously thailand, china etc have signs at customs that possession of narcotics (yes this includes weed) is punishable by up to death.... unlikely to get such a sentence but up to 7 years isn't much by the standard of other countries in the region.
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They're all still available on Youtube
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They still play on YouTube but if you compare the episodes listed on his YouTube channel to the ones listed on Spotify, the recent ones talking about Osaka and Japan are all missing and the last episode is his Houston marathon one, nearly two months ago.
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If he was having problems previously with his USA visa (I remember reading about it) - then there is no chance for him to come back to the States after this.
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swede2 wrote:
All research on successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased, and law enforcement decreased, while abolishing mandatory minimum sentencing.
explain why countries with extreme drug policy (middle east and asia) have far fewer drug problems?
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They're all still up on youtube.
Are you referring to this one @19 minutes?
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Aussies love their sauce wrote:
Seroiusmatter wrote:
Up to 7 yrs. Japan and Asia in general has some strict cannabis laws.
The US should have drug laws like this. Would end the fentanyl crisis in a year. Our tolerance for drugs is a weakness and results in high overdose rates and crime.
Amen. 27 people in this thread are fent addicts apparently.
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I see the explanation.. There are two YouTube channels:
It's only the bigger channel, Sweat Elite, that has the updated videos
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Sorry, correction, it's only the *smaller* channel that has the latest videos.. Perhaps he wiped them while in Japan?
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Apple Podcast is having the same issue
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Canadian running wrote:
In a recent podcast episode, Fox explained he typically travels with THC gummies to help manage his anxiety and sleep, acknowledging that many countries are lenient regarding THC products for personal use. “I travel with THC gummies, and most countries don’t care, but Japan is different—they tend to search you every time,” he said.
Fox noted that he avoided bringing gummies into Japan, aware of the country’s strict drug laws. After his February marathon, he spent a few days skiing in the mountains before becoming inactive on his social media accounts.211 -
malmo wrote:
dea has a chopper in the air wrote:
At least he didn't try this in Indonesia.
Or MalaysiaThis happened to a girl I went to middle school with when she tried to be a mule in Bangladesh. Death by hanging seemed like a very real possibility.
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sounds like CBD in the "marijuana" capsules. this is an ahole bust.
and some people don't think twice about it. CBD
and should
that said, i travel with a literal pharmacy bag, no CBD, but did not get around to stocking.
reminds me to be careful going to Singapore, Malaysia, especially.
Japan .... well, they are a great bunch, but are in the dark ages grouping handful med cannabis and athlete with hard drugs dope dealer and the headline writers are the ones that need jail time.
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I say this as an occasional cannabis user: this is such an idiotic and entitled move.
You wanna get high so bad that you’re going to pay a courier service to try to smuggle drugs through a Japanese airport? That’s insane. It’s stressful just thinking about trying to set that up, and for what? To get high on foreign soil. No idea what the probability of success on that kind of operation is, but he had to know it was risky.
I do sympathize a bit as I wish they’d just throw it away and give him a hefty fine, but that’s not how the world works and you gotta grow up and realize that it’s really really dumb to try to pull something like this.291 -
Japan has the Three-Blind Mice system of 3 Judges, 99% conviction rate, no jury, no parole.
You have to study Shinto & Buddhist texts, explain why you are a criminal, explain how you reformed yourself, cry balling out with snot flowing out of your nose, apologize like you mean it, to get out of prison.
Otherwise you stay in jail until you adhere to the norms of Japanese society.
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Japan executes drug smugglers. Drugs is how UK, US, USSR poisoned Asia back in the day.
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