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Who doesn\u2019t want to be a zombie that smokes?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Although Japan doesn\u2019t tend to have quite as prolific a drug culture as other countries, one does exist, and the newest part of it to make headlines has been \u201czombie cigarettes<\/strong>\u201d (literally \u201czombie tobacco\u201d in Japanese, but \u201ctobacco\u201d is often used to refer to cigarettes in the language).<\/p>\n That\u2019s the name the Japanese media and authorities tend to use for it, and other names include \u201czombie juice,\u201d \u201ckpods,\u201d \u201cspace oil,\u201d and \u201claughing gas,\u201d but the true name of the key substance is etomidate<\/strong>. This is an extremely fast-acting anesthetic that can knock patients out in a matter of seconds and is usually used in ER settings as a precursor for regular anesthetics, because etomidate is also very short-lasting, with patients waking back up in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also been adopted as a recreational drug, particularly in Southeast Asian areas like Hong Kong and Singapore. However, it\u2019s not a particularly pleasant drug, offering little in the way of euphoric feelings. It\u2019s mostly just knocks people out and can result in a loss of motor control and spasming, hence the \u201czombie\u201d nicknames. It recently made its way to the southern parts of Japan, especially the islands of Okinawa Prefecture.<\/strong> Last May, the Japanese government classified etomidate as a \u201cshite yakubutsu<\/em>\u201d or \u201cdesignated drug,\u201d making it explicitly illegal for recreational use and sale. Since then, there have been 18 arrests for etomidate possession in Japan.<\/p>\n In August, the first-ever arrest for etomidate possession in Tokyo was made when a 28-year-old was found with about 3.1 grams of it in vape liquid inside his parked car in Shibuya<\/strong>. The man admitted that he had been vaping etomidate since April and intended to use the amount that was found on him.<\/p>\n \u25bc News report on the arrest<\/p>\n\n Readers of the news online were unsettled by the rapid spread of this drug, while others debated whether \u201czombie cigarette\u201d was a cool name or not.<\/p>\n \u201cI would like to see a real zombie once in my life.\u201d<\/em> It\u2019s probably safe to say any drug with \u201ccigarette\u201d in the name is inherently uncool, and the media is likely using it for that very reason. From what I read about it, it\u2019s a pretty unappealing drug too, meaning there\u2019s always hope that it will just never really catch on and become a problem of the past all on its own before too long. In the meantime, steer clear of anyone acting like zombies on the streets of Japan.<\/p>\n Source: TBS News Dig<\/a>, High Times<\/a>, YouTube\/TBS News Dig Powered by Jin<\/a>, Twitter\/\u30be\u30f3\u30d3\u305f\u3070\u3053<\/a><\/em> Who doesn\u2019t want to be a zombie that smokes? Although Japan doesn\u2019t tend to have quite as prolific a drug culture as other countries, one does exist, and the newest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a zombie outbreak.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s scary to think this will continue to spread.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cSo that\u2019s what zombie cigarettes are. Scary\u2026\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cLike fentanyl, it all comes from you-know-where.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cOf all the drug names, \u2018zombie cigarette\u2019 is by far the lamest.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cDon\u2019t give it a cool name with foreign words like \u2018zombie.\u2019 That\u2019ll just make people want to use it!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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