America. During occupation we forced Japan to make marijuana, hemp and every other drug illegal. Partially its said to force our own ideas of morality on Japan. Part of it was specifically to destroy the Japanese hemp industry which was quite large at the time, to the point were Hokkaido has a large wild hemp/marijuana population that is actively watched and destroyed still.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yeeeeeeeessssss*
* With some exceptions for medical marihuana
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Seems like a lot of Asian countries really hate weed. Why is that?
BrickEater@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
America. During occupation we forced Japan to make marijuana, hemp and every other drug illegal. Partially its said to force our own ideas of morality on Japan. Part of it was specifically to destroy the Japanese hemp industry which was quite large at the time, to the point were Hokkaido has a large wild hemp/marijuana population that is actively watched and destroyed still.