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Japan steps up marijuana warnings following legalization in New York

Apr 7, 2021 Following the recent legalization of the recreational use of marijuana in New York and New Jersey, the Foreign Ministry in Japan is urging its citizens visiting or living in those states to continue to stay away from the drug. The Consulate General of Japan in New York issued a statement last week warning local Japanese residents and tourists that despite the legalization of pot for personal use in the two U.S. states, they can still be penalized for acts such as cultivating and possessing marijuana under Japan’s anti-cannabis law. Please do not get your hands on marijuana even if you are in a country or region that legalizes it, the statement said.

Marijuana law reform in Japan contingent on the message

Feb 6, 2021 The government wants to revise Japan’s Cannabis Control Law. Presently, growing or possessing marijuana is against the law, but because of a perceived increase in use of the drug among young people, the health ministry wants to make smoking and ingesting marijuana crimes, too. This may sound like splitting hairs How can you smoke weed without having it? but the proposal indicates the authorities’ strong resistance to trends in other countries to decriminalize and even commercialize the medicinal and recreational consumption of pot. The official position is that marijuana is dangerous, despite the fact that little research has been carried out in Japan as to just how dangerous it is. This is also the case in the United States, where private use of marijuana has been gradually legalized at a local level. As pointed out in the 2018 documentary, “Weed the People,” now streaming on Netflix, marijuana is categorized as a schedule 1 drug at federal level,

New panel to probe growing use of marijuana and stiffen draconian pot law

Jan 22, 2021 Alarmed by a recent spike in the number of youngsters abusing marijuana, also known as cannabis or pot, Japan’s health ministry is looking to stiffen what is already one of the world’s most draconian anti-cannabis laws. On Wednesday, the ministry convened a new panel of experts tasked with discussing possible revision to the Cannabis Control Law, under which owners and growers of the illicit plant currently face up to five and seven years of imprisonment, respectively. Here we take a closer look at the expert panel, the law and how cannabis has been used, or not, in Japan.

Osaka lawyer says Japan s marijuana regulations are absurd

Osaka lawyer says Japan’s marijuana regulations are ‘absurd’ By Tokyo Reporter Staff on January 13, 2021 Michiko Kameishi (Twitter) OSAKA (TR) – Over the past decade, some countries around the world have loosened regulations regarding the possession and use of marijuana. Japan is not one of them violators of the Marijuana Control Law can face prison time for possession of even small amounts. To wit, the Tokyo District Court last month handed actor Yusuke Iseya a one-year prison term, suspended for three years, for the possession of marijuana. The year before, male idol Junnosuke Taguchi also received a suspended term for the same crime.

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