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NEWS: 'Kill Me Baby' Actress/Idol Ai Takabe Arrested for Alleged Drug Possession


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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:16 am Reply with quote
I wouldn't mind contributing to a KS/IG for her recovery, if she was actually using the stuff, if she's trafficking the stuff then no thanks, drug trafficking is a grave sin.
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falcon.punch



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:15 pm Reply with quote
What she apparently did is bad bad bad, Ruined her career.

And now, if that's the case, she must pay the consequences with a price.
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NGK



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:43 pm Reply with quote
FalconPunch wrote:
What she apparently did is bad bad bad, Ruined her career.

And now, if that's the case, she must pay the consequences with a price.


NPA is deadly serious... if not PR China tier against any recreational drugs.

http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/asp/pdf/current_students/01_student_handbook/Drug_Laws_In_Japan.pdf
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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:14 pm Reply with quote
NGK wrote:
FalconPunch wrote:
What she apparently did is bad bad bad, Ruined her career.

And now, if that's the case, she must pay the consequences with a price.


NPA is deadly serious... if not PR China tier against any recreational drugs.

http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/asp/pdf/current_students/01_student_handbook/Drug_Laws_In_Japan.pdf


Not quite PRC tier as there's no death penalty for drugs in Japan, it's a step above the US though. There needs to be some rehab over there.
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valoon



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:32 pm Reply with quote
Japans drug laws are ridiculous, she shouldn't be punished that much.
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jdnation



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:06 pm Reply with quote
Poor thing...

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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:21 pm Reply with quote
Kougeru wrote:
Never understood why people get into drugs.


I've never had drugs in my life and I've never wondered such a thing since it's the equivalent of wondering why the sky is blue. Nor would I take a harsh stance on someone who either becomes addicted to it or uses it recreationally.
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Joe Carpenter



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:29 pm Reply with quote
Funny how her character in Kill Me Baby looked like she was high all the time, but it's still too bad her life has been ruined.
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consignia



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:42 pm Reply with quote
I wonder what she was done for? Yellow Bentines? Clarky Cat? Cake? Those metabolically bisturbile drugs are dangerous, hopefully her Shatner's Bassoon is undamaged.
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Tomibiki



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 7:25 pm Reply with quote
I bet that shit was suuuuuuuuuper cut with bakin soda.
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omegaproxy





PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:46 pm Reply with quote
This really sucks. The fact that she used them and got caught, she must have been hanging with some bad/wrong people. And she's kinda person would fall for anything, who would trust anyone.
I really like her from listening to the internet radio from Aoi Hana and briefly on KMB, Very soft spoken and likable person.
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Hellsoldier



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:11 pm Reply with quote
Once more, a person's life will be ruined by a mistake she made, by a dehumanizing law, and by a society that is ready to ostracize her. Okay, time to show my figurative middle finger to the government in Tokyo, and to her agency who didn't even care to know why she was arrested (I didn't see Ubukata get nearly as much of this s***).

Greeting from a country that treats drugs as a health problem and prefers rehabilitation over prison. Wink
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soul.assassin



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:28 pm Reply with quote
Assuming that there could be one of us practicing law, how many months or years she'll be facing if found guilty?

One of the worst things a Japanese celebrity would be facing if arrested for any offense, asides from social rejection and losing credibility and face value, is trial by publicity -- often the press will analyze incidents and crimes down to the smallest of minutiae. Of course, the notorious tabloids (i.e. Shukan Bunshun) will be having a field day, and that talent agencies are known for insisting on straight-arrow demeanor will kick anyone found to be in violation of agreed stipulations in their contracts.

As for some of the other comments I read here that goes along the grain of "serves her right", can those people stop sounding obnoxiously self-righteous? Being humiliated can be downright traumatizing.
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yell0



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:04 am Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
I wouldn't mind contributing to a KS/IG for her recovery, if she was actually using the stuff, if she's trafficking the stuff then no thanks, drug trafficking is a grave sin.


So providing someone a product they wish to buy is a "grave sin"? No, that's called trade, a voluntary transaction.

I'll just leave this here:

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cu4.html

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cu5.html

Quote:
Halsted's skill and ingenuity as a surgeon during his years of addiction to morphine earned him national and international renown. For Lister's concept of antisepsis--- measures to kill germs in operation wounds Halsted substituted asepsis: measures to keep germs out of the wound in the first place. In this and other ways, he pioneered techniques for minimizing the damage done to delicate tissues during an operation. Precision became his surgical trademark. A British surgeon, Lord Moynihan, admiringly described the Halsted technique at the operating table as one of "frequently light, swift, sparing movements with the sharpest of knives, instead of free, heavy-handed deep cutting; of no hemorrhage or the minimum of hemorrhage instead of the severance of many vessels, each bleeding freely until clipped ." 4 For pioneering improvements such as these, Halsted became widely known as "the father of modern surgery."


http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU68.html


Quote:
"(3) Stop increasing the damage done by drugs.
Current drug laws and policies make drugs more rather than less damaging in many ways. The alleged justification for this is, of course, to deter people from using drugs. Thus, the sale or possession of hypodermic needles without prescription is a criminal offense–– a policy which leads to the use of nonsterile needles, to the sharing of needles, and to epidemics of hepatitis and other crippling, sometimes fatal, needle-borne diseases. Contaminated and adulterated illicit drugs circulate as freely as pure illicit drugs, with no greater penalty for selling them and no effective system for warning users against them. Only trifling efforts are made to find and eliminate the cause of the hundreds of deaths each year among heroin mainliners–– deaths falsely attributed to "overdose." The establishment of methadone maintenance programs for heroin addicts is resisted and delayed in part because some people want heroin addiction to lead to disaster–– as a deterrent to others. Loss of employment, expulsion from school, and exclusion from respectable society similarly serve to increase the damage done by drugs–– and over all of the other penalties hovers society's ultimate sanction, imprisonment, the most damaging of all consequences of illicit drug use.

These and other drug laws and policies have succeeded in making drug use more damaging in the United States than in other countries, and vastly more damaging today than in the United States of a century ago (see Chapter 1). But as deterrents against drug use, these policies clearly have failed. "


Anyway Hoppy, I can guarantee you that losing her job and the stigma attached to the drug use will ruin her life far worse than the drugs themselves ever did.

Halsted, the "Father of Modern Surgery", was a drug addict almost his entire adult life. Imagine what medical advancements would have been lost or set way back, killing countless people, had he been fired and his career ruined simply because he was using drugs.
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SirWence



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:35 am Reply with quote
omegaproxy wrote:
This really sucks. The fact that she used them and got caught, she must have been hanging with some bad/wrong people. And she's kinda person would fall for anything, who would trust anyone.


I wonder what they'd find if they rifled through the board members of Fuji TV's respective closets .. I would hazard they would find a few things a tich more...exotic? Than cocaine. I love the 'shadow' hypocrisy sigh.

Hope the girl gets some help though; and doesn't wind up in prison.
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