Overview
- A 29-year-old office worker in Oita City was arrested for cultivating nine cannabis plants and possessing about 17 grams of dried cannabis for alleged profit.
- Oita Prefectural Police say this is the first profit-motivated cultivation arrest in the prefecture since the Cannabis Cultivation Control Law took effect in December 2024.
- The Oita suspect has admitted to the charges and investigators are tracing his suspected distribution network across the region.
- In Kumamoto, a 15-year-old middle school student was arrested for possessing roughly one gram of dried cannabis that he acknowledged was for personal use.
- Kumamoto authorities are probing the juvenile’s procurement channels after earlier questioning of him and his peers raised suspicions of cannabis possession.