Overview

• Three wrestling team members bought online “relaxation effect” cookies in early May after seeing a celebrity-promoted SNS post without knowing they contained cannabis components.
• Two students consumed the cookies in mid-May, and one wrestler fell from the dormitory’s second floor suffering head and wrist fractures.
• University probes verified the presence of the cannabinoid component in the cookies and prefectural police tests detected no illegal substances.
• Yamanashi Gakuin University ordered four students involved in the incident to suspend competition participation through July.
• Officials plan drug-use prevention education to address labeling and awareness gaps while police continue investigating the fall’s circumstances.