Several dozen meters from a police station in downtown Tokyo is a small shop called Booty. It sells a selection of powerful hallucinogens, mainly to young Japanese in dreadlocks and scruffy hemp clothing who look like a cross between Rastafarians and hippies. You can select from a half-dozen varieties that will make your head spin, such as Psilocybe cubensis, a mushroom from the Netherlands ($10 a gram); Mexican peyote ($120 for five grams); ayahuaska, a vine from the Amazonian jungle ($70 a dose); or ibogaine, a stimulant and hallucinogen from the Congo ($10 a gram). The owner of the shop, Yuichiro Morita, 27, insists that he runs a strictly legal business. The neighboring cops and Japan's Justice Ministry officials agree.
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