nagpants 1 Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 City of sin! ----- Police track heroin ring after 3 foreigners, Japanese die in Roppongi Sunday, June 13, 2004 at 07:33 JST TOKYO — Heroin components have been detected in the bodies of three foreign nationals and a Japanese who died in March and April in Tokyo, police officials said Saturday, adding they suspect a heroin trafficking ring is active in Roppongi. Seven other people, including Americans and Japanese, were hospitalized from March to May for symptoms believed to be due to drug intake, the police said. Heroin components were found in a 21-year-old female Brazilian dancer who died at a hospital after collapsing in the Roppongi area in March, and the three others — a 46-year-old Canadian man, a 33-year-old American man and a 30-year-old Japanese woman — died in April, they said. Cocaine components were also detected in the body of the Canadian man, they said. The police have arrested several of the people who were hospitalized on suspicion of drug control law violation and are trying to track down trafficking routes. (Kyodo News) Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 misery... Roppongi is a place people die like this? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted June 14, 2004 Share Posted June 14, 2004 Has Roppongi changed in recent years at all? Link to post Share on other sites
Dims 0 Posted June 15, 2004 Share Posted June 15, 2004 Well I certainly know the cocaine trade there is alive and kicking. Tokyo Coke-e-o Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Tell us more please? Is it open and well known? What do those lovely policemen do about it? I've never ever seen drugs in Japan. Link to post Share on other sites
Dims 0 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 The police don't do much at all. There are certain bars that have been selling it for so long and rather blatantly that there must be some yakuza/gang/police deal going on. That's all I'm going to say on the matter Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 You should say more. Which places? Not that I want any, just want to look. Link to post Share on other sites
powwwers 0 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 yeah, i reckon you should say more too. but unlike tha big O, i want some. feel free to private me Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Have I been blind when I'm there? Don't know the "right" people? How come I never seen anything like this going on? Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I was just in Roppongi. Was at a 24 hour club. And after partying all night into the afternoon I needed a little extra to keep going. Asked around at the bar but couldn't get anybody to tell me anything. Oh well though. Wallet was empty. Couldn't have even paid. So I settled for drinking somebodies Red Bull and left. Link to post Share on other sites
animal 0 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I've never seen anything either. Link to post Share on other sites
akibun 0 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Why do you want to take drug? Isn't it bad and addiction? I don't understand it well. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Akibun: not until someone dies. Veronica, Toq etc: What do you mean you cant see it or find any??!! Coke is the very fabric of society, it is every where. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Quote: Coke is the very fabric of society Don't be ridiculous. Or do you mean the drink? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I must also not be part of the fabric of society. " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" /> Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 Do you know any good places for cheese in Roppongi? Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Found this at Mainichi Drug dealers grab partying foreigners by the speedballs Tokyo's Roppongi district is best known as the capital's party paradise, attracting large numbers of well-heeled revelers, especially foreigners. But Roppongi has been rocked in recent months by four sudden fatalities, three of non-Japanese, and another seven people slipping into a coma after imbibing in drugs, according to Weekly Playboy (7/6). Roppongi has often been whispered as an underground drug haven, but use has hardly been widespread considering a common anathema for chemical-induced pleasure that sees many Japanese regard even marijuana as a hard drug. Roppongi's recent casualties, therefore, have come as an even greater shock to a land where drug use remains limited, especially compared to the West. "What the casualties have taken could've been speedballs, a mix of cocaine and heroin. Speedballs apparently give an awesome feeling that can't be obtained with either heroin or cocaine alone, with some users describing its effects as being like living in a kaleidoscope," Takeshi Kitashiba of the Japan Social Pathology Research Center tells Weekly Playboy. When downers like heroin and uppers like cocaine are mixed in a speedball, the brain effectively sends a message to the heart to slow down and speed up simultaneously. When the heart can't cope with the messages it receives, it effectively freezes, just like an overloaded computer. An anesthetic called ketamin has been suggested as an alternative culprit in the Roppongi drug deaths. "Ketamin is usually called K or Special K. You get an absolutely wicked high if you mix this with cocaine or heroin," a Roppongi nightclub employee familiar with the area's drug scene says. "But, if you don't get the right mix, that's pretty much the end of you." Akio Kuroki, a former Metropolitan Police Department patrol cop and now a journalist is not surprised to see hard drugs on the streets of Tokyo's famous party town. "Dealers are simply coming up with powerful new concoctions for users who're tired of the same old stuff and need a new kick," Kuroki tells Weekly Playboy. "But, because all the recent casualties have occurred in or around Roppongi, investigators looking into the case suspect the trafficking may still only be small scale for the moment." While foreigners are largely the casualties of the wider drug use, it's also non-Japanese who are being blamed for bringing the narcotics into the country in the first place. "Those smuggling heroin into Japan are separate syndicates, one made up of Chinese with Malaysian passports, and the other Nigerians with Western citizenship. Recently, there's also been the Canadian route, which is a Chinese triad that shifted to Canada before Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule in 1997, and deals largely in ecstasy and speed," the nightclub employee up on Roppongi's drug scene says. Hirokatsu Azuma, a journalist familiar with foreign organized crime operations in Japan, says there're plenty more new drugs expected to hit Japan's underground markets. "There's a new type of speed called erimim being smuggled in from Southeast Asia," Azuma tells Weekly Playboy. "I don't know a great deal about it, but if you slip it into a drink, you can't feel anything and soon nod off. I've heard it's already been used as a rape drug in Thailand." Link to post Share on other sites
Davo 1 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Moral of the story is don't do it or a least be confident about the source and quality of the product. Sounds like these people probably thought they were snorting a nice big line of coke but ended up getting something else. A friend of mine thought he was doing a line of coke once but it was actually smack. His nose started bleeding and he was messed up for days. I think he got off pretty lucky with just that. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 I've never enjoyed the sophisticated feeling of having somebody swipe your drink off the bar. I once went to the only 'happening' bar in Matsuyama and what happened was that my half a beer disappeared while I was talking to some loud-mouthed people. It made me feel young again (not a very good feeling). Link to post Share on other sites
Dims 0 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Be careful out there kiddies! Link to post Share on other sites
stripper on coke 0 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Awww, come on people, you can't be serious. You have been to Roppongi (and don't think it is just in Roppongi), and can't find any coke ??????......I guess it is like the old saying, 'It must be right under your nose.......' But seriously, people have been passing away in Roppongi for as long as Roppongi has been there. I have lost a few good friends this way myself. However, this same thing (ie people dying in clubs) happens all over the world. It has happened in London, it has happened in the States, it has happened in Australia too. Oh yeah, the same thing happens in Thailand and Bali. Even happened to River Pheionex (????). I think part of the reason is because of an increase in the quality of the drugs being manufactured and sold now. With the whole war on drugs having so much money thrown at it, the quality of the stuff has increased, in some cases, quite remarkabley so. I guess we do have some things to thank Bush for....as for supply, well it seems to me that there is more gear around then ever before. And, again, don't think it is just happening in Tokyo. Actually, if you look into it, the Americans are, in fact, perpetuating the herion trade. The last season in Afghanastan was a bumper season for poppy growers. As opposed to the season before when more then 80 odd percent of the poppy crop was erradicated. The reason the farmers went back to their poppy crop was one of simple economics. The Americans, who almost totally destroyed the previous years crops failed to live up to their promises to the farmers, who were left without alternative crops, and hence, no income.......I guess it's true, some good seems to have come from chaos........ As for the cocain trade, it is true what the movies say. The cartels have more money then governments do, so anything a govt tries to do, a cartel can do better. And I, for one, hope to see it contine in the same vein for a long, long time to come. I am an adult, and I feel I should be the one who decides what I do with my mind, body and time. In my opinion, it is about time govts started to act for the people. By regulating the drug trade, you would have less money for the cartels and dealers, and more safely on the street for average Joe the voter/recreational drug user......(BTW, I despise the term 'recreational drug user'. It sound like going for a swim or a walk or something......) Mind you though, if govts did control the drug scene it would be kind of weird and uninteresting going to score, don't you think..... P.S. Please forgive any spelling mistakes, things are a bit shakey today - perhaps too much of a good time over the last few weeks.......but, what can you do ??????? Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Quote: Recently, there's also been the Canadian route, which is a Chinese triad that shifted to Canada before Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule in 1997, and deals largely in ecstasy and speed," the nightclub employee up on Roppongi's drug scene says. I'm always happy to hear the Canadian conection. We get blamed for everything. We're just fun loving people with free minds, good ideals and ability to sometimes do things right. Most of the time we're just out for a good time. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Stripper, Maybe I misinterpreted your post but surely youre not saying that governments should decriminalize coke and heroin, right?? Link to post Share on other sites
Worm 0 Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Thats what he seems to be saying..... Link to post Share on other sites
mattlucas 0 Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 There is something to be said for the regulation of the harder drugs. 1st it gets the dealers out 2nd should be able to control quality so that it makes it much harder to screw up 3rd can set up places that are clean with knowledgable people there to help and maybe counsel And there are many more reasons both good and bad. Link to post Share on other sites
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