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Public information about Cannabis of Japan

Public information about Cannabis of Japan is a description of the U.S. Pharmaceuticals sample replica of 15 years or more ago

In our country, the Drug Abuse Prevention Center(DAPC) which is an extra-governmental organization of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, is undertaking the education enterprise about the danger of the medicine.
They are making known to Japanese that a Cannabis has various harm.
They have said, “We need to learn exact knowledge about Cannabis sativa that will be a ringleader of a social problem.
And they have said only the bad thing about “physical and psychic influence of Cannabis”.

Recently, former narcotics agents have been instigating national anti-Cannabis sentiment for a Cannabis to be atrocious in television or a newspaper.
But, their threatening remarks have already been settled medically.
And all of these statements have only repeated the information of DAPC.

In Mr. Katsuragawa’s appeal court, prosecutors submitted printing of this “DAPC homepage” to the defense counsel having asked for the basis which judges a Cannabis harmful. When the defense counsel asked for the source of this information again, prosecutors answered “Although we referred for
this information to DAPC, prosecutors were not able to obtain a reply.” The public Cannabis information of a Japanese government-parachutist-into-private-industry foundation is so careless in this country.

First of all, based on what is the Cannabis information of DAPC described?
June, 2004. Mr. Itoi representative director (then /former Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare bureaucrat) of DAPC explained that the Cannabis information on DAPC was an extract of the “drug abuse prevention educational guide reader” published in this foundation.
There is the page “drug abuse prevention manual use explanation” in the “drug abuse prevention educational guide reader”, and it is written to the lowermost part as follows.

Translation and annotation: It seems that this manual serves as the above-shown “kit for drug abuse prevention education” to one pair, and is sold in the U.S.

This shows that this booklet is translation. It seems that even those who have translated do not know the source.The text of this page has the following explanation.

Neither the main fields recorded on this book nor the published medicine is carrying out perfect analysis. It is the purpose for description to call people’s attention and to contribute to the specification in question, to the last. herefore, when the detailed information about special material
etc. is required, please ask directly.
We investigated this manual, and it turned out that the Cannabis information on DAPC was just a description of the medicine sample replica of Drug Prevention Resources in Texas in the United States, and Inc.

Can you believe? This is public Cannabis information on Japanese Government.

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“Cannabis and Brutality” Japanese public org answers

On November 8th, in a TV program “News Caster” (TBS), Mr.Urakami said “Smoking cannabis causes brutality”.
He was once a narcotics agent and now work for “Absolutely No!” center (The Drug Abuse Prevention Center Foundation) as an instructor.

On November 11, Mr.Shirasaka,head of the THC Japan telephoned “Absolutely No!” center in order to confirm the evidence for “Cannabis causes brutality.”
This is the transcription.

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Sumo: Russian wrestler expelled over marijuana

Sumo: Russian wrestler expelled over marijuana
by Patrice Novotny

TOKYO, Aug 21, 2008 (AFP) - Japan’s sumo authority on Thursday expelled a Russian wrestler caught with marijuana, an unprecedented punishment which activists said highlighted the rigidity of the country’s drug laws.
It was the latest in a raft of scandals for the 2,000-year-old sport, whose image was tainted last year when a teenage apprentice died after violent abuse by his stable.
The Japan Sumo Association held an emergency board meeting and decided to oust Soslan Gagloev, a 20-year-old who has risen quickly through the ranks under the ring name of Wakanoho.
“He was arrested over a violation of the marijuana control law,” said Kitanoumi, executive director of the sumo authority. “The association dismissed him today.
It was the most severe punishment ever handed down by the sumo association, which has never before dismissed a wrestler in active competition.
The Russian, who has been a professional sumo wrestler since 2005, was arrested Monday for allegedly possessing a joint with 0.368 grams of marijuana inside. Police also confiscated a pipe for marijuana smoking.
“This incident disturbed the public,” said the Russian wrestler’s stable master Magaki, sitting next to Kitanoumi at the press conference. “I apologise for my poor supervision.”
Magaki offered his resignation as a board member, which was accepted at the emergency meeting, the association said.
Gagloev had been promoted in July to maegashira, the highest sumo level below the main four competitive ranks.
Russia is among a number of countries and US jurisdictions that have all but legalised marijuana in recent years by lightening punishments or allowing the use of the drug for medicinal purposes.
Japan, along with most of East Asia, enforces strict laws banning both hard and soft drugs. Possession of any amount of marijuana in Japan carries a risk of up to five years in prison.
Foreigners caught with marijuana risk expulsion, as happened in 1980 when Japan jailed former Beatle Paul McCartney for nine days for carrying weed in his suitcase.
Activist Kazuhiko Sirasaka said that the wrestler’s arrest showed a hysterical attitude in Japan towards marijuana.
“The amount found on Wakanoho was ridiculously small. How can you be arrested and prosecuted for that? It’s a nightmare,” said Sirasaka, head of the THC Japan association which lobbies on behalf of what it calls victims of drug legislation.
“The government is only repeating the slogans of American authorities to ‘Just Say No,’” he said. “The penalties are only severe so as to spread the myth that cannabis is dangerous.”
Asked about the reasons for Japan’s zero-tolerance policy on drugs, a health ministry spokesman said only: “It’s the law.”
Japan closed a loophole in 2002 that allowed sales of hallucinogenic mushrooms, which were the country’s only legal drug.
Despite the strict punishments, Japan has seen a rising number of drug convictions, although the number is still small by global standards.
Police in the nation of 127 million people reported a record 3,282 drug violations in 2007. Two-thirds of the people who were arrested were in their 20s.

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