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Health ministry mulls legalizing marijuana for medical use
By KAI ICHINO/ Staff Writer
May 26, 2022 at 19:00 JST
The health ministry is seeking to legalize marijuana for medical use in Japan
while considering introducing a new legal provision to criminalize its usage f
or recreational purposes.
The ministry’s expert panel met on May 25 to begin discussions on revising t
he Cannabis Control Law, which was enacted in 1948.
The move comes as the ministry in June 2021 compiled a report recommending th
at the government allow the use of drugs that contain substances of marijuana
to treat refractory epilepsy as the United States and other countries have app
roved such medications.
This summer, the ministry plans to draft proposals to revise the Cannabis Con
trol Law.
The current law prohibits the cultivation and possession of cannabis as well
as the manufacturing of medicines made from it. The ban targets the spikes, le
aves, roots and ungrown stalk of the cannabis plant.
But those parts of the plant contain substances that can be used for medicati
ons. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a hallucinogen, is believed to be harmful to
people’s mental health, while cannabidiol (CBD), another substance, is though
t to cause little harm to humans.
All the Group of Seven countries, excluding Japan, have authorized the use of
epilepsy drugs that contain CBD derived from marijuana.
When revising the Cannabis Control Law, the ministry intends to ban certain s
ubstances of marijuana instead of parts of the cannabis plant to make it easie
r for people to use marijuana for medical purposes.
But those legal revisions could also help spread the use of marijuana, includ
ing drugs containing THC.
THC is mixed into some imported drugs offered online that are supposed to con
tain only CBD, posing challenges in cracking down on such products.
The panel will also discuss adding a new provision to the Cannabis Control La
w to criminally punish the use of marijuana, except for medicinal purposes.
The law has had no such penal provisions since concerns were raised when the
law took effect that farmers growing the cannabis plant could be punished for
symptoms resulting from unintentionally inhaling substances of marijuana.
But no substances of marijuana were detected in urine tests on those farmers,
according to a survey conducted by the ministry in 2019.
Offenders would face severe punishment if the new provision is introduced.
But some experts are calling for offering more treatment to those addicted to
marijuana to prevent repeat offenses, instead of imposing criminal penalties,
citing data that shows many users of marijuana in Japan are young people.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14630593
拎娘日文版居然是有料
厚生勞動省正在尋求醫療用大麻合法化的可能
同時也在考慮將娛樂用大麻入罪
在25日的專家會議討論到修改1948年至今的大麻管制法
厚勞生在去年六月收到應該向美國將大麻作為醫用的建議
今夏厚勞省提出了修改大麻管制法的草案
目前的大麻管制法是禁止製造和擁有大麻葉、莖和根和其成分成的藥物
大麻含有兩種成分 THC致幻劑被認為有害心理健康
CBD大麻二酚被認為幾乎無害
目前G7裡面只有日本是依然禁止大麻二酚相關的藥物
修法時會採取禁止特定成分而非大麻的植物部位
讓醫療用大麻更容易被使用
此案也可能造成娛樂用大麻氾濫
像本來應只有CBD的進口藥物混有THC成分 會觸犯此法律
這次會議也討論到將醫療用途外的大麻入罪
也討論到可能會對種植大麻的農民產生影響
但2019年的報告顯示並沒有大麻成分從農民尿液中被檢測到
如果修法通過 違法者將會面臨重罪
也有專家呼籲應該給予大麻使用者治療而非刑罰
因為在日本大麻使用者多是年輕族群
我再次宣布台灣正式成為大麻沙漠
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