Forum - View topicSamurai Champloo drugs
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Kyle Smyth
 Posts: 157 Location: Ontario, Canda |
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In the episode 9 what is the drug that gets everyone high? It looks like marijuana plants, however those were some huge halucinations the people had. Could it be something else?
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DarkTenshi90
 Posts: 440 Location: Nebraska |
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I'm not sure, but could it be opium? I'm not really aware of Japan making Marijuana back then, but I'm absolutely not sure. ...
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Anthony P
Posts: 227 Location: Phoenix, Arizona, US |
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Judging by the appearance and effects of the plants, I'm pretty sure they weren't based off real-life hallucinogenic plants of any sort.
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GloriousPikachu
 Posts: 84 Location: San Diego |
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I'm pretty sure your right, opium was quite popular in japan and china back then, and was widely used. |
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DemonEyesLeo
 Posts: 844 Location: Japan |
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The thing about opium is that it's collected by condensing and then dehydrating the milky liquid of a poppy plant. Now in that episode, the plants are simply burned; there's no collecting, condensing, or dehydrating.
Oh yeah, and a poppy plant looks like this: 
So I don't think it's opium, I think it was marijuana which looks like this: 
Now it's true that opium was widely used at that time; but remember; spoiler[the monks wanted to start a revolution, which could mean the introduction of this new drug]. And also the disclaimer at the beginning: "This is a work of fiction." |
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PantsGoblin
 SubscriberEncyclopedia Editor  Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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OMG, that scene was fu*king hilarious, when everthing went all crazy and colorful and he turned into a blob and came out of himself and grew rockets out of his feet and flew away and had stars in his eyes!...... to tell you the truth I only saw that part of the episode because my friend, Berselius, thought I would find it funny, which I did. I've only seen 2 episodes of Samurai Champloo other than that, its not my type of anime, but honestly that scene was awesome!
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samuraiwalt
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This subject was discussed here5 months ago. I think that it looked more like marijuana than opium.
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Keonyn
Subscriber Posts: 5567 Location: Coon Rapids, MN |
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Champloo isn't exactly too grounded in reality so in all likelihood the plant and its effects are fictional.
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cadub77
Posts: 16 Location: Cleveland, oh |
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idk, I was wondering that myself...
on another note did you catch the last episode? It was in my opinion the 2nd best episode ever. |
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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well they were laughing there butts off so im gonna say weed.
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_effects.shtml |
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Kyle Smyth
Posts: 157 Location: Ontario, Canda |
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I checked a little more into ganja and apparently if you smoke awhole lot of it you can halucinate like mad. And they did smoke a hell of alot of whatever drug that was so I am pretty sure that if it was a fictional drug it was modelled after pot.
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Anthony P
Posts: 227 Location: Phoenix, Arizona, US |
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While pot is technically a hallucinogen, pot just heightens sensations you're already having, rather than making you see / hear / feel things that aren't really there (even when consumed in large amounts). The plants in Samurai Champloo induced effects that appeared to be a combination of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms. So yeah, the producers of that episode either weren't basing the plants off any drug in particular, or they really missed the mark.
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