Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

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Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by PhoenixEX » Sun May 31, 2015 8:56 am

Besides the obvious Alcohol consumption (looking at you, Bulma) and random cigarette smoking characters, have there ever been any mention of drugs? Any use? Marijuana is just now very slowly starting to become more socially acceptable and it'd be interesting for anime to implement recreational use like a lot of sitcoms and films have been increasingly doing. What do you think?
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sun May 31, 2015 9:02 am

-Muten Roshi smokes weed
-Bulma and Chi-Chi mention something about pot in GT
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by successoroffate » Sun May 31, 2015 9:08 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:-Muten Roshi smokes weed
-Bulma and Chi-Chi mention something about pot in GT
That does not sound accurate. Also, if they said it in the english dub. then it's just Funimation messing around as ever.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by jjgp1112 » Sun May 31, 2015 9:19 am

DBZAOTA482 wrote:-Muten Roshi smokes weed
-Bulma and Chi-Chi mention something about pot in GT
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...anyway, I remember Oolong talking about slipping sedatives in Goku and Bulma's drinks, but that's pretty much it.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by Polyphase Avatron » Sun May 31, 2015 9:33 am

Didn't Mr. Satan once claim that Cell or someone was on steroids? Does that count?
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by 90sDBZ » Sun May 31, 2015 9:55 am

When Super Buu changed to Buff Buu in the Manga Goku joked that he might be on steroids.

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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by FortuneSSJ » Sun May 31, 2015 10:08 am

Spopovitch and Majin Vegeta just have the word steroids written all over them.
Not only because their appearance, but also getting quickly power ups through the bad way.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by Chronic_mcduffin » Sun May 31, 2015 10:43 am

Some would argue that Senzu are drugs.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by LuckyCat » Sun May 31, 2015 1:16 pm

Marijuana is still illegal in Japan so it's not like they can throw it out blatantly in children's programming.
Chronic_mcduffin wrote:Some would argue that Senzu are drugs.
They're magic beans. If you want to get technical, the characters used for them are 仙豆 which means "wizard beans".

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Post by MCDaveG » Sun May 31, 2015 3:37 pm

LuckyCat wrote:Marijuana is still illegal in Japan so it's not like they can throw it out blatantly in children's programming.
Chronic_mcduffin wrote:Some would argue that Senzu are drugs.
They're magic beans. If you want to get technical, the characters used for them are 仙豆 which means "wizard beans".
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sun May 31, 2015 3:47 pm

successoroffate wrote:
DBZAOTA482 wrote:-Muten Roshi smokes weed
-Bulma and Chi-Chi mention something about pot in GT
That does not sound accurate. Also, if they said it in the english dub. then it's just Funimation messing around as ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u138ElWqqPw

Roshi was shown smoking a pipe when Goku and Kuririn were training.
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by dbgtFO » Sun May 31, 2015 3:50 pm

DBZAOTA482 wrote:
successoroffate wrote:
DBZAOTA482 wrote:-Muten Roshi smokes weed
-Bulma and Chi-Chi mention something about pot in GT
That does not sound accurate. Also, if they said it in the english dub. then it's just Funimation messing around as ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u138ElWqqPw

Roshi was shown smoking a pipe when Goku and Kuririn were training.
Do we actually see the object she dropped. She could've just referred to the one used for cooking after all.

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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by Theophrastus » Sun May 31, 2015 4:01 pm

DBZAOTA482 wrote:Roshi was shown smoking a pipe when Goku and Kuririn were training.
Tobacco can also be smoked from a pipe, you know.
dbgtFO wrote:Do we actually see the object she dropped. She could've just referred to the one used for cooking after all.
It's a cooking pot that she had on her head, which then fell off and hit Bulma's windshield.

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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sun May 31, 2015 4:19 pm

Theophrastus wrote:Tobacco can also be smoked from a pipe, you know.
Yes, but Roshi's all about relaxing and shit. No one who smokes tobacco is calmer in the long-run. It makes you even more on the edge.

Also he has that certain pipe.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.

I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by dbgtFO » Sun May 31, 2015 4:32 pm

Theophrastus wrote:
dbgtFO wrote:Do we actually see the object she dropped. She could've just referred to the one used for cooking after all.
It's a cooking pot that she had on her head, which then fell off and hit Bulma's windshield.
Ah, yes. I should have watched the video, haha.

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Post by Herms » Sun May 31, 2015 4:32 pm

90sDBZ wrote:When Super Buu changed to Buff Buu in the Manga Goku joked that he might be on steroids.
For the record, that's just the Viz version. In Japanese they just note that Boo is getting really buff all of a sudden.
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Post by MagicBox » Sun May 31, 2015 4:48 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:...anyway, I remember Oolong talking about slipping sedatives in Goku and Bulma's drinks, but that's pretty much it.
Along that same line, there are also the PP Candies that Bulma gives / slips Oolong.

... Laxatives are drugs, after all...
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by FoolsGil » Sun May 31, 2015 5:22 pm

Beer, and whatever it is Master Roshi smokes. Whatever it is, it's speculation-tobacco, marijuana, opium-all we know is that whatever it is, he smokes it, meaning it's a drug.

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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by Gaffer Tape » Sun May 31, 2015 5:34 pm

Technically, a drug is any chemical substance, excluding food, that has an effect on the body. Granted, you're probably not using it in that context, but, still, alcohol is mentioned and shown, which is a drug, cigarettes are smoked, which are drugs. Senzu definitely has an effect on the body, but it is technically food, so it does not count.

Anyway, I don't see any reason to think any pipe Kame'sennin is smoking contains marijuana.
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Re: Any mention of drugs in Dragon Ball?

Post by FoolsGil » Sun May 31, 2015 5:37 pm

And Goku's antidote. He didn't even get it from a doctor. :P

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