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Breaking Bad: Japan Prof 'Made Students Produce Ecstasy':
A Japanese university professor could face up to 10 years in jail after allegedly getting his students to produce ecstasy, officials said Wednesday, in an echo of TV hit series "Breaking Bad".
Authorities suspect the 61-year-old pharmacology professor from Matsuyama University in western Japan got his pupils to make MDMA—commonly known as ecstasy—in 2013 and another so-called "designer drug" 5F-QUPIC last year.
The professor told investigators he was aiming to further the "education" of his pharmaceutical sciences students, an official from the local health ministry told AFP.
The ecstasy allegedly produced has not been found and has "probably been discarded," added this official, who asked to remain anonymous.
[...] Japanese law states that a researcher needs a licence issued by regional authorities to manufacture narcotics for academic purposes.
Next on the syllabus was how to start, organize, and operate a fast-growing business?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday April 17 2019, @09:00PM (2 children)
>that's symptomatic of something being terribly wrong with how drugs are designated officially
It is also symptomatic of what happens when a drug becomes socially accepted.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Wednesday April 17 2019, @09:02PM
Before being labeled as a prohiBOTionist, I consider this professor is a hero. If people made XTC on their own, the war on drugs would be won. It would be only sufficient to jail people who are high in public, for safety reasons.
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(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Wednesday April 17 2019, @10:34PM
No, alcohol is problematic on its own. Caffeine is socially acceptable and has far fewer problems.