Lifestyle Oct 25, 2020
Is Japan ready to embrace CBD?
by Dan Buyanovsky
Japan’s CBD market is on the cusp of taking off, and the economic potential is huge. But it has stiff legal and social barriers to overcome first.
Japanese Baseball Jul 10, 2020
Former Lotte pitcher Randy Jackson arrested for cannabis possession
Former Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Randy "Jay" Jackson Jr. was arrested Friday on suspicion of cannabis possession at his home in Chiba, near Tokyo. The 32-year-old American, who played for the Hiroshima Carp between 2016 and 2018 and joined the Chiba-based Marines this season, remained ...
National / Crime & Legal Jun 19, 2020
The cannabis use by the three was brought to light during police hearings in relation to the arrest and indictment of their peer.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 4, 2020
Entertainer Masashi Tashiro jailed for drug use and possession
Entertainer Masashi Tashiro was found guilty Wednesday of using and possessing illegal stimulants last November. The Sendai District Court sentenced Tashiro to 30 months in prison, six months of which were suspended for two years with probation for rehabilitation purposes. According to the ruling, Tashiro, 63, ...
More Sports / Winter Sports Jan 28, 2020
Ex-Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo gets suspended prison term for smuggling cannabis
A court on Tuesday sentenced former Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for smuggling cannabis from the United States. The Tokyo District Court found the 31-year-old conspired with a male acquaintance, already found guilty, to smuggle around 57 ...
National / Crime & Legal Nov 7, 2019
Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo suspected of smuggling cannabis from U.S.
Former Japanese Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo was arrested Wednesday for allegedly smuggling cannabis from the United States for profit. The narcotics control department of the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare also searched his home the same day. According to the department, Kokubo, 31, a ...
More Sports / Football Mar 18, 2019
Former Impulse quarterback gets suspended term for smuggling cannabis
A former player in Japan's top American football league was given a suspended prison term Monday for smuggling cannabis into the country last year. Benjamin Anderson, a 26-year-old American and former quarterback with the X-League's Panasonic Impulse, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended ...
More Sports / Football Feb 19, 2019
Joe Montana, the former Hall of Fame quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, is betting on the newest California gold rush: cannabis. Montana, who founded a venture fund in 2015, took part in a $75 million fundraising round for Caliva, one of the top-selling brands ...
Business Dec 3, 2018
It was midsummer, less than three months before Canada legalized recreational marijuana, and Vic Neufeld had a problem. The chief executive officer of Aphria Inc. had just hired 50 people to work in the pot producer's greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario, and by the end of ...
National Oct 22, 2018
As Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, Japanese citizens warned the law from home may apply
by Sarah Suk
Canada's legalization of the recreational use of marijuana, which went into effect last week, has prompted the Japanese government to issue warnings that Japan's law on cannabis use may apply to its nationals even when they are abroad. In an Oct. 4 message posted on ...
Business Oct 16, 2018
Alberta expects 80 to 100 cannabis stores licensed in a month
Alberta expects to have 80 to 100 cannabis retail stores licensed over the next month, with 17 locations ready for the first day of legal sales on Wednesday. The Canadian province is confident it will have adequate supplies ready for Wednesday, said Alain Maisonneuve, chief ...
World / Science & Health Aug 30, 2018
U.K. scientists uncover how cannabis component CBD may fight psychosis
British scientists have unraveled how a nonintoxicating component of cannabis acts in key brain areas to reduce abnormal activity in patients at risk of psychosis, suggesting the ingredient could become a novel anti-psychotic medicine. While regular use of potent forms of cannabis can increase the ...