Wild cannabis plants are seen in Gunma Prefecture.
The government is poised to allow the use of medical marijuana to treat patients with intractable diseases, according to the outline of bills revealed on Tuesday.
The government is considering submitting the bills including one to revise the Cannabis Control Law during the current Diet session.
The proposed revision would also criminalize the use of marijuana.
In countries including the United States and Britain, medicine made from cannabis plants is used to treat patients with intractable epilepsy and other diseases for which existing drugs are ineffective.
Cannabis plants contain a substance that has an intoxicating effect, which is one of the reasons why the use of marijuana in medicine is prohibited in Japan. The proposed revision would enable such patients to use drugs made from cannabis plants.
On the use of marijuana, there are currently no penalties for using it because farmers who cultivate cannabis with permission by prefectural governors might intake substances from the plant during harvesting.
Marijuana has been dubbed a “gateway drug” as it is said to lead to other forms of drug abuse. The government intends to strengthen the crackdown on marijuana to prevent abuse of the drug among young people, which is becoming a social problem.
ParticleShine on January 27th, 2023 at 19:13 UTC »
Things that get you a high of any kind are insanely taboo in Japan (get as drunk as you fucking want for some reason even though it's killing your liver).
Sea2Chi on January 27th, 2023 at 18:22 UTC »
Holy shit.
We had a ton of Japanese exchange students at my university and I volunteered as a conversation partner to help them with getting settled in and working on their language skills. Separately from that, I also happened to sell pot to a few friends and neighbors. Not a lot, but I would buy it from a guy by the mason jar and sell it by the film can until I broke even.
I didn't tell the Japanese students that because the time I did they reacted like I just said I gave black tar heroin to preschoolers.
Those folks took marijuana more seriously than Americans take almost anything.
I am very curious as to what medical legalization is going to look like.
nabarigo on January 27th, 2023 at 16:33 UTC »
Guarantee no one will even know lmao, Korea did the same years ago but very few are actually aware and to get a prescription is a herculean task