Even American basketballers can’t resist:
Three American basketball players who had been fired from their South Korean teams for smoking marijuana were sentenced to suspended jail terms by a local court Monday.
The Suwon District Court sentenced Terrence Shannon and DeAngelo Collins of the Seoul SK Knights and Calvin Warner of the Anyang KT&G Kites to six months in prison with a one-year suspension for smoking the illegal drug at downtown Seoul hotel in January, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Wonderful…
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I don’t get it, so the one guy was out of the country?
Anyway, the players must’ve sucked. If they were any good they would have waited until the end of the season to arrest them. Oh wait, that’s only in musicals.
I respectfully request that anyone not familiar with former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper learn more about him. He is calling for the legalization of all drugs, including marijuana (and alcohol). Thank you Chief Stamper, for your sanity.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002661006_sunstamper04.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/30/citing_failed_war_on_drugs_former
Right, because Americans have proven themselves mature enough to handle drugs. Bitch about the criminalization of pot all you want, but let’s look at which countries have an out-of-control drug problem: it’s the US, not the East Asian ones.
I would suggest that Korea has a very serious drug problem: alcohol. This despite the fact that alcohol is legal.
I would have to agree with kpmsprtd. I would even go so far to say that alcohol is a much more damaging drug to both the body and society than a little of the ole’ chronic. All those drunk ajoshis (and more than a few foreigners as well) could use a bit of mellowing out after a stressful day at the office and alcohol does nothing but aggravate it.
I would have to agree with kpmsprtd. I would even go so far to say that alcohol is a much more damaging drug to both the body and society than a little of the ole’ chronic.
It would depend on what sort of doses we’re talking about, but I’d generally have to disagree.
I used to smoke quite a bit, and I saw what pot did to those who smoked too much. It is not the harmless drug hippies will have you believe it is, at least not these days with the levels of THC in each bloated head. Marijuana can turn a socially shy person into a dysfunctional 30-year-old virgin given enough cones and time. It can also induce schizophrenia in some cases. One of my good friends is on medication for life from one heavy munch session when he was a teenager.
It might be cool, but it ain’t good for you. Korea could do with cutting back on the soju intake, that’s a given (start by taxing it), but they’ve got the right idea when it comes to ye ole’ chronic. Keep it out, I say.
By the way Brian I just replied about your wedding qs, sorry it took me so long!
Hmm. I find myself speechless, unable to respond to the Aussie truth-talker. Everything hoju_saram said about marijuana is true. Those are the real dangers, even though they aren’t what you’ll read about in the typical U.S. propaganda. I’ll put my spin on it by mentioning that if you smoke enough weed, you might never leave the house.
If you’re going to use any drug, including marijuana, use it in moderation, and if you can convince young people to wait until their psyches have completely developed, all the better. We’ll have more truthful discussions like this after Norm Stamper and I complete our mission.
Are they able to leave the country on suspended sentences?
I’m not claiming marijuana is harmless, but I feel I must say that when it does do harm, it does so in a minority of cases compared to alcohol which is in the majority of cases.
Of course everything should be used in moderation, but how many Koreans do you know that drink in moderation, compared to how many hippies do you know that smoke excessive amounts of marijuana?
The hypocrisy between the two far outweighs any argument anyone may have about the dangers of the two drugs in question. Given that, how many of you smoke cigarettes? And would you not agree that the dangers of tobacco, combined with the dangers of alcohol and marijuana are even more severe?
The real argument is the same as ATEC claims — if your going to test one group of people, then test them all or don’t test anybody for anything
If you’re going to legalize or make it crime then legalize all of them and make every drug a crime. Prohibition has already shown us that making everything a crime does no good at all.
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I think I read somewhere though it may of been a while ago that around 80-90% of NBA players are weed smokers. I think even players assoc got it taken out of drug testing in their last CBA.
Dummies on both sides, the Americans for not investigating before coming over about Korean drug laws and the Koreans for not doing their own research on weed in the professional basketball culture in the US.
wjk– my sentiments exactly, it’s just a joke no matter side of the fence you sit on, my own post included…
Anyone high enough to edit this for me?
That’s a fuck of a lot of sparkle for one paragraph, no?
Why do you need to edit that, just replace “weapons” with something more appropriate and you are done.
This thread is for people who understand the proper applications of THC, JW.
What the heck is THC?
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This blog just writes itself.
Here’s another one:
Indeed. And for this reason I believe all ajoshis be given horse tranquilizers.
OMG!! two people were smoking pot behind closed doors in their hotel room, this is an outrage!… Honestly though, Korea should really loosen up a bit when it comes to a drug that is far less dangerous than alcohol whose only real side effects are inducing food cravings.
If you are going to loose brain cells might as well do it with a drug that does not cause you to make sidewalk pancakes of sick.
One bad policy does not justify another. I really, really like the fact that Korea is marijuana- (and other narcotics-) free. I would gladly support outlawing tobacco and alcohol if that would have pot enthusiasts just shut the hell up.
I do, however, must note the irony that one of the players played for KT&G – Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Co.
KT&G … Korea Tomorrow and Global. Get it right!
Korea Beat’s top story today is a good one on pot growers caught. Gaddamn pot-adled foreigners are at it again! 외국인 아웃! … no, waitaminnit…
#6, 10.
If you look at the number of people who die every year from an overdose of seemingly innocuous drugs, namely aspirin, acetaminophen, and vitamins, you could say that marijuana is relatively safe, and even more so when you remember that marijuana isn’t linked to lung cancer.
http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer
I would hate to see heroine legalized for the simple fact that a miniscule amount of it in it’s purest form is all that is needed to cause death.
its…sorry, grammar nazis.
crap…heroin. I wouldn’t want to offend any of you Joan of Arc-worshipping religious types.
Well, this country isn’t drug free. Far from it in fact. It’s just the local population is better at hiding it. Last I knew there’s plenty of Crank down in the Pusan area and I know lots of old koreans that grow poppys (an old ajjuma told me it’s ah… uhm… medicine, yeah that’s it) and Hemp out in the country side.
The wae gookin devils that come here aren’t used to being super secret squirrel paranoid about it being that you can pretty much do it anywhere back home without too much hassle.
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Tobacco & Ginseng was correct until a few years ago, when they split the company in two (evil tobacco vs good-for-your-health ginseng).
“The wae gookin devils that come here aren’t used to being super secret squirrel paranoid about it”
The ones that don’t get caught are.
“compared to alcohol which is in the majority of cases.”
wheres your stats for that?
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