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Women in Japan face a $4,800 fine if they have a sterilisation procedure without their spouse's consent, but there is now a fight to have that changed. ....
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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 federa ....
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. ....