脱だっ法ぽうハーブ

noun

law-evading herb; synthetic marijuana; fake pot

Refers to psychoactive substances sold as legal alternatives to illegal drugs, often marketed as 'herbs' or 'incense' but containing synthetic cannabinoids. The term is strongly associated with the social problem in Japan around the early 2010s.

• 脱だっ法ぽうハーブによる健けん康こう被ひ害がいが社しゃ会かい問もん題だいになった。

  Health problems caused by law-evading herbs became a social issue.

• 警けい察さつは脱だっ法ぽうハーブの販はん売ばい店てんを摘てき発はつした。

  The police raided a shop selling law-evading herbs.