Andrew Gallimore

And so it's facilitated by alcohol.

Communication facilitated by alcohol.

So it's a society that is dependent on alcohol in a strong way.

What is their approach to other drugs?

Yeah, it's complicated, I would say.

It's weird because, okay, so when it comes to the law, people always say, oh, Japan has got the strictest drug laws in the world.

First of all, no, it hasn't.

Go to Singapore.

Settle down, yeah.

But when it comes to drugs, cannabis for...

Probably for, you know, after the Second World War, when I think it was MacArthur that was drafting the Japanese constitution and was basically controlling what it had.

It was occupying Japan, of course, after the Second World War.

And America was in the, what's that movie called?

that 1950s moody weed madness reefer madness it was america was in the kind of reefer madness phase um and they they passed that on to the japanese and the japanese have never really gotten over it so but and then there's meth of course i mean meth came from japan meth was invented in japan right it was used during the second world war the kamikazes they actually used these little

green tablets that were called storming tablets.

Oh, boy.

They were mixed with green tea and stamped with the crest of the emperor.

So they became like sacraments.

They would pop those.

Yeah.