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irotsoma ,
@irotsoma@lemmy.world avatar

The pant is illegal because it’s cheap to grow yourself, but if you let some drug companies make money off of processing it, then it’s perfectly fine to use…

Skates ,

Most of the world: takes a step forward

Japan: not on my fucking watch

1o6s3nhwic ,
@1o6s3nhwic@discuss.online avatar

Good. That’s for fucking losers

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

This is bot, it’s been reported, just block it.

FundMECFSResearch ,

Wasn’t it already illegal. My wife’s cousin served two years for an amount that is so small police wouldn’t even bother to confiscate it in europe.

CanadaPlus ,

Yeah, it’s news to me that it wasn’t technically illegal. They still believe in the reefer madness shit and act like it.

IsThisAnAI ,

Just Japan doing Japan things.

Maeve ,

This is to close off profit to anyone but those selected. They know they are going to incarcerate more people, too.

EnderMB ,

I don’t like weed. I’ve tried it throughout my teens, but left it there.

With that said, it’s amazing to me that we’re still having the same conversations around drugs. Decriminalise EVERYTHING! Ensure what is on the market is clean, drive the costs down to remove criminals from the market, and dedicate every police force to protecting those on the bottom rung of the drug ladder.

I read a book from a former officer a while back, where he’d spent two years working on infiltrating a drug network. It was successful, and they not only shut down a major network of drugs, but arrested around 100 people, and removed tons of illegal weapons from the market, and arrested several people in the network known to police for being involved in several murders. They believed that the drug market in the UK during this time had been disrupted “for three hours”. That was all it took for another gang to take over, and apparently it’s those successes that cause a lot of people to leave drug enforcement - after all, what’s the point?

There almost seems to be zero benefit to drug criminalisation, other than “old conservatives hate it”.

Maeve ,

Rich corporations and people profit, everyone else is criminalized for reasons.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

The police love drug criminalization because it gives them widespread latitude to hassle pretty much anybody they feel like whenever they feel like, because “drugs could be involved.” Marijuana especially, since stoners are generally fairly nonthreatening folks but “I smelled marijuana” is a zero-effort way to instantly manufacture a fictitious probable cause for anything.

jpreston2005 ,

amid increasing concerns that the lack of a ban on use is promoting drug abuse by young people.

This fucking backwards ass notion of weed as a “gateway drug” needs to die. Their reasoning for calling it that shows their idiocy, in that it’s called that because it’s cheap and harmless, so they think it will lead to people believing other drugs are similar. Imagine branding something as dangerous because it’s (Checks Notes) cheap and harmless.

Although from personal experience, I’d say that weed is a gateway drug of sorts, in that if you’re addicted to something far more dangerous (like alcohol), using weed can act like a “gateway” to sobriety.

krashmo ,

In my experience weed can be a gateway drug when you have to buy it from a drug dealer. As an analogy, lots of people end up buying something other than what they went into Target to buy.

jpreston2005 ,

Whatever it takes to get people to take some shrooms and chill all the way the fuck out

triptrapper ,

Also, dealers don’t check ID.

cyberpunk007 ,

And yet alcohol shall not be banned.

What are they thinking?

Facebones ,

If its like the US they get buckoo tax monies they aren’t getting from canna.

sudo ,

Is that supposed to say beaucoup?

nulluser ,

TIL how to spell beaucoup.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

And not to be confused with Boku.

CanadaPlus ,

TIL people use it in English.

Facebones ,

Yeah, well, shut up 🤣

sudo ,

Can do, bucko ;P

Tja ,

Bone apple tea

HubertManne ,

to be fair states that have legalized are getting tons of ganja tax monies.

CitizenKong ,

And unlike cannabis use (as far as I’m aware), alcoholism is actually a real problem in Japan, because drinking alcohol is not only socially acceptable but downright enforced.

Corkyskog , (edited )

It’s even worse, because over a third of Japanese are allergic to alcohol and probably shouldn’t be consuming for increased health risk.

queermunist ,
@queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

They can’t stop people from making bathtub wine.

Maeve ,

It's not entirely harmless, but more harmless than a lot of OTC medicines.

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

You are arguing with a bot.

Shard ,

Welcome to Japan, where everything, especially their mentality is fatally stuck in the glory days of the 1970/1980s.

Even today they still use fax and computer usage is the office middling and general computer literacy is abyssal.

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Shocking: Nazi country bans plant because worker productivity, or something. I wonder why their suicide rate is among the highest of any country in the world?

Get your fucking act together, Jesus Christ.

prole ,

Japan is not a “Nazi country.” If you meant “fascist,” they’re not exactly that either.

Extremely xenophobic and unfriendly to outsiders? Oh yeah. Nazis? The fuck are you talking about?

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i live in the same state as Mitch McConnell, so if I fear going to Japan, it’s probably for a good reason.

PenisDuckCuck9001 , (edited )

I’m going to boycott everything having to do with Japan from now on then. Putting people in jail over thc metabolites is absolutely wrong and absolutely unacceptable.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

A population that old and conservative loves shit like that. Also, the government urging young people to instead drink more alcohol sounds like something straight out of the Soviet Unions playbook.

systemglitch ,

Alcohol leads to fucking and they need more babies. From a logic perspective it makes perfect sense.

No one smokes weed then gets overly horny.

jpreston2005 ,

Man, high sex is so good though. For me, it’s like I get tunnel vision around the sensuality, enveloped by sexual desire, where the only thing that exists is my partner, and for that time we are purely sexual beings. Every touch elicits goosebumps, every nerve at attention, like my entire body is a sexual organ in the throes of hedonistic pleasure. I never feel more connected to my partner, and for some reason it also lends itself really well to aftercare; like, once we’ve cleaned up and/or caught our breath, I just want to cuddle and continue to feel the safety and comfort of their warmth.

Truly the best kind of sex imo

Maeve ,

Wait till you try it on hallucinogenic.

jpreston2005 ,

That straight up sounds like a terrible time, I’m not gonna lie

lost_faith ,

Depends on how you deal with them. I quite enjoyed sex on acid, when I did acid

HandBash ,

Weed is an aphrodisiac though?

griD ,

Indeed, especially for women in my limited experience. Hmm, do I want to really commit SuicideByWords by mentioning a small sample size?

valek879 ,

Having one woman as a friend is still more than none.

limonfiesta , (edited )

If alcohol consumption fixed declining birth rates, Japan wouldn’t have an aging population and Russia wouldn’t have been facing a demographic collapse even before the Ukraine invasion.

This isn’t about boosting sex, it’s about being a conservative policy counterweight to opening the door to legalizing medicines derived from cannabis.

My guess is that it’s a result of an internal NJP compromise between center right and hard right factions: only agreeing to allow liberalized medical cannabis policy, if the law also increased the scope of, and penalties for, recreational uses.

But that’s just my assumption based on my limited understanding of Japan’s post-war uniparty government.

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

No one smokes weed then gets overly horny.

yes they do lol

Halcyon ,
@Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I wouldn’t be so sure about that… Sex on psychedelic substances is quite an experience, compared to alcohol which numbs.

I_Has_A_Hat ,

Weed is not a psychedelic.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

I can only talk for myself but never in my life did I have sex more crazy, borderline fucked up, as that one time me and my partner smoked weed before jumping in the sheets.

Alcohol on the other hand turns me into a useless sack of meat. Literally the end times for any boner of mine.

Lightor ,

No one smokes weed then gets overly horny.

Ummm… Yes?

ayyy ,

The original propaganda against weed, called Reefer Madness, was all about how black men would smoke weed and then literally couldn’t stop themselves from raping white women because they got so horny.

(I guess I have to point out that of course that isn’t true)

gencha ,

Drunk people might accidentally get pregnant and help with the population. Really an obvious move

Diplomjodler3 ,

Great way to regress in societal development.

AllNewTypeFace ,
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space avatar

I thought they already did that. (Didn’t a number of touring rock stars, including IIRC one of the Beatles, get busted for having it?)

Jimbabwe ,

Use vs. Possession

Possession is the behavior that’s typically illegal, but use is legally tolerated because people can be exposed to it (the article gives the example of farmers being exposed while producing legal hemp).

Chainslaw ,

I told a guy in Tokyo we smoke weed walking down the street in America and he looked at me like I was insane.

Cyberjin ,

It’s gonna create a black market

Japan sees record cannabis cases in 2023, 70% among young people

They would rather have you drink Japan urges its young people to drink more to boost economy

Imacat ,

That’s a misleading headline. Makes it sound like 70% of young people use cannabis. The figure is that of people who were charged with cannabis related crimes, 70% were in their 20s. About 1.8% of their population had ever used cannabis in 2019.

web.archive.org/web/…/japan-marijuana-law/

PenisDuckCuck9001 , (edited )

Possession of marijuana is already illegal in Japan. Now they’re sending anyone to prison that’s tests positive for thc metabolites. Boycott these fascists, don’t buy stuff from Japan and don’t support Japanese companies if you can help it.

JimmyBigSausage ,

Great. Now the Korean mafia can get busy. 🤦🏽

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