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  1. #Japan #drugs #PoliceState #MMDA

    "Playwright Jeremy O Harris arrested in Japan for alleged drug smuggling

    The writer of the Tony award-nominated Slave Play remains in custody after authorities say they found MDMA in his bag

    American actor and playwright Jeremy O Harris, known for the Tony-nominated Slave Play, was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country, local authorities said late on Thursday.

    Harris, 36, was stopped on 16 November at Naha airport on Okinawa island after a customs officer discovered 0.78 grams of crystal containing the synthetic drug MDMA in his tote bag, an Okinawa regional customs spokesperson said.

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    Japan maintains strict drug laws with severe penalties for possession and smuggling offences. The country has some of the toughest narcotics regulations among developed nations, with even small amounts of illegal substances resulting in criminal prosecution. Punishments, however, are not as harsh as in other Asian countries such as China and Singapore, where drug offenders can face the death penalty."

    theguardian.com/stage/2025/dec

  2. #Musk #DOGE #billionaires #MMDA

    "How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

    Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA"

    theguardian.com/technology/ng-

  3. The #MMDA, and the everywhere in the government of the #Philippines needs to invest in high pressure water/air cleaning for these barriers (look at the photo below) and any government owned assets (like the walls of train stations and so on). They all look very ugly and dirty. Repainting is not …

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mnxyzr4yd4xtmhdnga3cgkuc/post/3lgs4arkxnc2n

  4. Infuriating! But what can you expect from an agency that similarly constructed a regular pedestrian walkway across Edsa just a few years ago that was equally challenging, as it zigged and zagged over the MRT? The #MMDA was already jeered on social media for it, so one would think its executives would take a more circumspect approach to similar projects in its future. We were wrong. Stupid is as #stupid does. #opinion #SomethingLikeLife #government #Philippines

    businessmirror.com.ph/2024/07/