Cannabis-infused candies and snacks will allow people to more easily try hemp and that those consumers will eventually want stronger drugs.

There is no danger in THC. If you ingest enough of it, it gives a rather fun experience hallucinating as well.

Just like anything, moderation is the key. The laws here against it need to moderated. Organics are fine. Keep away from the man made chemical brain and body enhancers.

I wonder how he came up with the snippet that marijuana users will want stronger drugs. Did he look at statistics and surveys or just regurgitate what I heard in the sixties about marijuana being a ‘gateway’ drug?

"will eventually want stronger drugs" -- This has been debunked up, down, left. right, inside, outside, upside down, forwards, backwards, and sideways. Get a clue!!

First of all, the statement that cannabis infusions are spreading all over Japan is whacko. You wonder what this fellow is on.

The idea that cannabis automatically leads to use of illegal hard drugs has been around for decades and it is not true. There is no scientific basis for this belief. It is a dangerous belief because when discredited it can cast truths about opioids into doubt.

Keep this dangerous drug out of Japan.We do not need the social problems caused by drugs that exists in USA and Western Nations.

I cannot believe the posters above are in favor of illegal drugs.If you want to do drugs,dont even think about doing it in Japan.

GambareJapan,

No one said they were in favor of illegal drugs; they said a stereotype of marijuana being a gateway drug has been proven to be wrong for decades. They were directly reacting to Funada’s assumption that it was. It isn’t. Who said they were in favor of illegal drugs?

Gambare,

You obviously don't know your history, Cannabis was "perfectly legal" and the most important resource in Japan for millennia before the US occupation.

Read this, please,

Recovering the Lost Legacy of Cannabis in Japan | Cannabis Now

The earliest evidence of cannabis in Japan dates back to the Jomon Period (10,000-200 BCE), with pottery relics unearthed in Fukui Prefecture containing seeds and scraps of woven hemp fibers. “Cannabis was the most important substance for prehistoric people in Japan,” Takayasu asserted. “They wore clothes made from its fibers and they used it for bow strings and fishing lines.” He also notes culinary and medicinal uses.

Cannabis also had a revered place in Shinto, Japan’s indigenous religion. Priests would wave bundles of leaves to bless worshippers and cast out evil spirits. The early 20th century American scholar George Foot Moore wrote about traditional use of cannabis-leaf bundles during the summer Bon (or Obon) festival. ......

In July 1948, occupied Japan passed the Cannabis Control Act— the harsh law that remains in force today. Snip

https://cannabisnow.com/recovering-the-lost-legacy-of-cannabis-in-japan/

The Secret History of Cannabis in Japan 

https://apjjf.org/2014/12/49/Jon-Mitchell/4231.html

Not only that, Cannabis is Not a dangerous drug.

It is the safest therapeutic substance on earth, proven to destroy tumors, inhibit the plaque causing Alzheimer's, reduce the inflammation after traumatic brain injury and stroke, promote neurogenesis, kill deadly MRSA and safely treat disease in general.

All True.

Not only that, its seed is the single most nutritionally complete food source on earth, and, the Plant can produce well over 25,000 earth friendly products.

It's Good for Us and society in general!

The Truth gambare, .... is that you've been taught lies and deceived, or, you are a prohibitionist troll, or, both!

Sincerely,

Garry Minor

Columbus Kaneh Bosm Ministry

Columbus Indiana 

https://mychronicrelief.com/holy-anointing-oil-cannabis/

I'm in favor of legal drugs - legalize them all. Redirect policing and punishment to education and rehabilitation. Put quality controls on the drugs to ensure that even if they are bad, they are as not bad as possible.

The war on drugs is a failure. It has never worked at any time anywhere. It's a fallacy. Time to come up with an approach that works, instead of continuing one that has done nothing but fail the people it's supposed to protect.

Moron. I bet this guy probably made the speech not long after an enkai where everyone trashed their livers, too. Marijuana is far safer than cigarettes and/or alcohol, which heaps of people here abuse day in and out with no regard for anyone's safety. And the fear tactics of "gateway drugs" this guy is trying to spread harken back to ignorant parents in the 60s, or just Mike Pence now.

Gary, excellent post and excellent read! Thank you very much!