Migrant cash can buy palace in Vietnam's 'Billionaire Village' but cost can be one's life
At least three of the 39 victims found in the back of a truck in Britain last week set off from Vietnam's "Billionaire Village" in search of their fortunes. A billion dong may only be around $43,000, but in the rural north-central town of Do ...
Former Kat-tun member Junnosuke Taguchi gets suspended term for marijuana possession
Junnosuke Taguchi, a former member of Japanese male idol group Kat-tun, was given a suspended prison term Monday for possession of marijuana. The Tokyo District Court sentenced the 33-year-old Taguchi to six months in prison, suspended for two years. His partner, former actress Rena Komine, ...
Canberra's legalization of cannabis clashes with federal laws
Australian Attorney General Christian Porter said on Sunday that Canberra's new legislation legalizing possession of small amounts of cannabis for personal use do not provide legal protection and clash with federal laws. In September, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) became the first of the country's ...
Vaping-linked lung injuries that have killed 29 and sickened more than 1,000 people in the United States are likely to be rare in Britain and other countries where the suspect products are not widely used, specialists said Monday. Experts in toxicology and addiction said they ...
Number of people killed by vaping in U.S. since March hits 26
Twenty-six people have died from illnesses associated with e-cigarette use since March, U.S. health authorities said Thursday, while some 1,300 have suffered lung injuries linked to vaping. Officials have yet to identify the cause for the outbreak, which dates back to late March, and are ...
U.S. scientists join effort to solve mysterious vaping-related illnesses
The U.S. investigation into hundreds of cases of life-threatening lung illnesses related to vaping has turned up a curious abnormality: Many of the victims had pockets of oil clogging up cells responsible for removing impurities in the lungs. Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman, who has been leading ...
Dragon Ash bassist KenKen and son of Char both arrested in marijuana bust
A member of the popular rock group Dragon Ash has been arrested for alleged marijuana possession in a case involving raids in Kyoto and Tokyo, investigative sources said Saturday. Bass guitarist Kensuke Kaneko, 33, known as KenKen, is suspected of possessing a small amount of ...
Junnosuke Taguchi, a former member of male idol group Kat-tun, pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing marijuana in the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court. His partner, former actress Rena Komine, who faces the same charge, also entered a guilty plea. The ...
Kyoto police officer, former world junior judo champ, arrested for alleged pot possession
A police officer was arrested Friday for alleged marijuana possession at the home of family members in Osaka Prefecture, police said. Wataru Umekita, a member of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, admitted to the charge, telling investigators that he possessed marijuana for his own use. A ...
Pot giant Canopy ex-CEO already working his magic at tiny Martello
Shareholders of a tiny Canadian tech firm are cheering the departure of Bruce Linton from pot giant Canopy Growth Corp. Martello Technologies Group Inc. has surged 89 percent since Wednesday morning, when Canopy announced that Linton had been ousted as co-chief executive officer. He later ...
Japanese junior high school students slightly more open to marijuana use, survey suggests
Junior high school students have become slightly more open to the use of marijuana, in part due to the influence of the internet, an official survey suggests. In the latest biennial survey by the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1.9 percent of about 70,000 ...
Signs of ritual pot smoking, possibly part of funeral rites, found in ancient Chinese graves
Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest direct evidence of people smoking marijuana from a 2,500-year-old graveyard in western China. In a complex of lofty tombs in the Pamir Mountains — a region near the borders of modern China, Pakistan and Tajikistan — excavators found 10 wooden ...
