[sumo] Wakanoho Caught with Marijuana

[Doreen Simmons]

On 2008/08/19, at 7:39, Scott Kahn wrote:

> Nonjudgmentally, just out of curiousity, how might a rikishi of 
> Wakanoho's stature obtain the alleged substance,

By walking along the main street in Roppongi and being offered it by 
one of the (usually) foreign dealers.

>  and how might the same rikishi escape notice whilst using the alleged 
> substance?

When the police searched his private apartment they found a mixture of 
Russian tobacco (not clear from the Japanese if this was loose or 
cigarettes) and cannabis; they also found "smoking apparatus".

> Furthermore, would Wakanoho himself be carrying his own wallet, or 
> would that be the responsibility of his tsukebito?

You are thinking in terms of public appearances not private life.

>
> A capable lawyer may be able to have such a case dismissed, and the 
> elapsed time may give any retained residues to exit the body.

See above. Note also that  a Japanese lawcourt is very different from  
the Perry Mason genre.

>
> Chalk another one up to the Kyokai's foresight, and their wise 
> decision to postpone drug testing...

They weren't planning on testing for this kind of substance abuse, 
AFAIK; just performance-enhancing drugs.

Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp