Maybe I'm translating it wrong, but I think it says they interviewed the people who were hospitalized. That's how they found out it was a guy passing them out.
You would think they would have found him by now, yet I haven't seen any follow-up news about what happened.
I just want to see Abram's coke-fueled, batshit crazy first draft of The Rise of Skywalker realized.
I love this because the Toymaker is basically Q.
Do this one again, this time use Janeway in the second panel.
Link? Every article I read says 'the police are investigating.'
Well, yeah. But what's strange is there are no articles about the guy. Only the store that sold it and the company that made it. Can they not find him?
re-reads old news articles
(Damn, this was already a month ago.)
So it was produced by an Osaka company, but the stores selling their product wasn't the reason people got sick. Some "guy" at an outdoors festival was passing them out to minors. The manufacture specifically forbade minors from buying or consuming them. Once festival bro bought them, it was out of their hands.
And if the Japanese company that makes these gummies wants to keep making them, they do have to change recipe to omit HHCH. If they don't, they'll run afoul of the new law now banning it from use in Japan.
Was HHCH the real reason 20 people got sick at one festival on one day? Dunno.
I agree, we're taking them at their word.
But I don't think they were trying to sidestep the marijuana ban in Japan. Just trying to offer some novelty product to separate tourists from their money.
As I said, the incident in Japan was a complete accident unlike what happened with these two characters.
And the oversized Reese's coffee mug he rode in on.
The store in Japan was unaware of the chemical or what it could do, and there was no way for them to predict that their customers would have such an adverse reaction.
The immediate response to the wave of illnesses in Japan was a change in Japanese law to ban that chemical and the shop immediately pulled it from sale and issued an apology.
Neither the shop nor the Japanese government has any say regarding what the producer of the gummies does outside of Japan.
I know it's wrong to judge people based on their appearances, but they look like they belong on Red Dead Redemption wanted posters.
The cases in Japan were accidental, the sellers didn't realize what was in the gummies.
This feels like intentional disregard for safety, at best.
You do not want the lizard prince to touch your nuts.