LEXICON
No.114 May 17, 2012

Law-evading drug
脱法ドラッグ
Legal drug
合法ドラッグ
Illegal drug
違法ドラッグ

Dappo (脱法) means to circumvent or evade a law without violating it or doing something considered illegal. Since the distribution and use of law-evading drugs (脱法ドラッグ) are not banned by law like controlled substances (規制薬物) such as narcotics (麻薬) and...

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