🇯🇵 Japan
2 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- No seed lot recorded
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Latest reports
Japan records its highest number of cannabis investigations
Police investigated a record 6,832 people for cannabis offences in 2025, 754 more than the year before, the National Police Agency said on 2 April 2026.[@1] About 700 were pursued under the new offence of use, and 1,373 were under 20, the highest since 1990.[@1] More than 40% of those under 30 said they had bought cannabis through apps such as X and Telegram, and police seized 315 kg of…
Japan seizes a record tonne of cannabis hidden in a container
Narcotics agents said on 13 August 2025 that they had seized 1.046 tonnes of dried cannabis, worth about 5.2 billion yen on the street, from a shipping container that had left Vietnam in May and arrived in Japan in June.[@1] It was the largest single seizure of any illegal drug in Japan, and more than twice the 452 kg of herbal cannabis recorded across the country in 2024.[@1]
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