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Gov't eyes prevention program for 1st-time drug offenders

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First-time offenders who are given suspended sentences are not required to enter drug treatment programs, meaning it is difficult to prevent them from repeating drug crimes.

In my humble opinion a drug user is not automatically a criminal! Not all drug users commit crimes, but here in Japan they are considered to have committed a crime because they used drugs!

First time offenders should automatically be sent to treatment centers or have mandatory counselling or some type of supervised treatment to prevent further abuse. Just dont treat them as criminals treat them as if they were a sick person and you wont get this....

Over 10,000 people are arrested for violating the stimulants control law each year in Japan. Of those who finished terms in 2015, 19.2 percent returned to prison within two years.

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work with hospitals and local communities to help offenders return to society

Return to society? Seriously? They are talking about first time offenders that are most likely just teenagers experimenting with a bit of pot. Return to society. Classic!

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Time to build re education camps so as to fix their wrong thinking? First time offenders 80% don't reoffend so councillors and follow up not a bad idea. It's a medical problem usually not a criminal one. To fix a problem have to accept there is a problem.

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10000 a year, but only now they are thinking it?

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How about this - LEGALIZE.

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No matter how much money people claim can be made through taxation of drugs, the current crop of old geezers in the diet will never allow recreational use in Japan.

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@do the hustle - Return to society? Seriously? They are talking about first time offenders that are most likely just teenagers experimenting with a bit of pot. Return to society. Classic!

While I agree that this is definitely a step in the right direction, and Japan lags way behind on the rest of the world in respect to this, I would be hesitant to classify first time offenders in the same circumstance as those in western countries.

I would love to see a study of what the typical first time domestic drug offender looks like in Japan.

But again, good step, it has been a long time coming!!

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Prevention" actually means stopping something happening, not dealing with it after the fact.

It does everywhere else in the world it seems except here. This issue is far from being the only one, but prevention HERE only comes after the fact!

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No matter how much money people claim can be made through taxation of drugs, the current crop of old geezers in the diet will never allow recreational use in Japan.

It's because the alcohol, tobacco, and pharma companies who pay the dietmen see legalized recreational and medicinal cannabis as direct competition. Not entirely unlike the US. (Although, the US also has a huge privatized prison industry which views the loss of convicts as detrimental to their revenue stream.)

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