Posted on 02/05/2009 6:54:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge
TOKYO – Sumo wrestlers with pot bellies, yes. Sumo wrestlers with pot? Now that's harder to grapple with.
In the past six months, four wrestlers have been kicked out of the ancient sport for allegedly smoking marijuana, creating the biggest drugs-in-sports scandal that Japan has ever seen.
Although three of the wrestlers who have been expelled from the sport were from Russia, the arrest last week of a 25-year-old Japanese athlete who goes by the ring name of Wakakirin for possession of marijuana has raised concern that use of the drug may be more widespread than originally thought.
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Just imagine the munchies.....
Gotta keep their appetites in shape.
They smoke pot for whole month one night! All rights go alound and alound. Evlybody raffing...cannot stop....Ha!Ha!
A pretty effective painkiller to boot.
“Steroids for Sumos”
Sounds like a t-shirt slogan for sure.
Japan’s own Phelps gate.
Say it ain’t so, Suzukawa-san...
This is old news for those in the know....
A lot of talk was going around that the Hawaiian rikishi of the 90’s had weed everytime they left their sumobeya.
And from personal experience, Japan is a really easy place to use and find weed, seeing that the police don’t know what it looks like and don’t know the smell. I actually rememeber on one of my trips there in my college days seeing a whole grove of it wafting between two rice fields in the country, just sitting there.
Every time a Japanese celebrity gets caught with weed, they get sent to jail for a year or so. But if they get caught doing enjokosai (sleeping with a minor and paying them money) they usually get freed on bail. Funny.
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