Not Even Soon To Legalize Marijuana


Marijuana is legal in many places in the world starting from some countries in Europe, to some part of North/South America. In 2013, Uruguay became the first country to fully legalize marijuana. (Vox) Then Canada was second. When will Japan be legalizing marijuana..? Maybe never.

At least once a year, elementary schools/middle schools invite guest speakers to lecture kids about the effect of "drugs" and how to prevent from getting them without actually knowing what they are. Marijuana is referred as a drug with other pills MDMA, Ecstasy etc. Japanese kids have never been taught about what marijuana actually does to you: That's why most of people in the country think that marijuana is bad.
These are some impressions Japanese people have:

"Marijuana kill people's brains."
"Don't smokers see or hear things?"

It'd be a lie if I say that there're no marijuana or no smokers in Japan, however it is not easy to get it. There're not many people that grow it either, so the price may be higher than it normally is in other countries that have already legalized weed.

Why is marijuana illegal in Japan? It's because America did it when they recreated Japan's laws after the world war 2, and it's been stayed illegal.

There's no evidence of why smoking weed is bad, but the police just has to say "Weed is bad for you." to the people who have done it and been arrested.

In fact, it is legal to use weed, it is illegal to possess weed.
So you can somehow smoke it without having it.



Sources: https://ch.nicovideo.jp/kapivara929/blomaga/ar1301477

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