Yamanashi Student Jumps From Building After Eating Legal 'Mood-Enhancing' Cookies Sold Online

Yamanashi student jumps from building after eating legal 'mood-enhancing' cookies sold online

In Japan, where strict anti-drug laws remain in place, you might find products that claim to give similar sensations to illegal substances but use ingredients allowed by law. Especially, in the harder-to-regulate realm of the Internet, products that claim to give “legal highs” are sold, but who knows what’s really…

Yamanashi student jumps from building after eating “legal mood-enhancing” cookies sold online

Don’t take cookies from strangers. In Japan, where strict anti-drug laws remain in place, you might find products that claim to give similar sensations to illegal substances but use ingredients allowed by law. Especially, in the harder-to-regulate realm of the Internet, products that claim to give “legal highs” are sold, but who knows what’s really inside them? Last May, a university student in Yamanashi Prefecture found this out the hard way, h…