Medical Marijuana in Japan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Last year, it recommended that the government allow the use of marijuana to treat "refractory epilepsy."
54% : Last week, a panel made up of Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare pushed for an update to the country's laws and rules to permit the importation of medical marijuana products.
50% :Passed in 1948, Japan's Cannabis Control Act bans the import, export, production, sale, possession, and research of marijuana.
46% : Japan is actually the only G7 country not to authorize the use of epilepsy drugs that contain CBD derived from marijuana (rather than industrial hemp) although that's likely to change shortly.
45% : What's awkward here is that Japan seems to be struggling specifically about what to do with marijuana within its borders.
40% : Marijuana is also hugely stigmatized there.
36% : Japan is very conservative when it comes to marijuana: there is a strict ban on its importation, production, and possession, and violating existing laws carries some of the harshest punishments on the globe.
35% : Weirdly enough, the use of marijuana may not be officially illegal in Japan.
34% : This is because, allegedly, a loophole exists in the Cannabis Control Act that protected hemp farmers from criminal prosecution if they inevitably inhaled "marijuana smoke" from their hemp crop.

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