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For decades, Japan has had some of the strictest cannabis regulations across the world, handing out harsh sentences for its possession, cultivation and sale. Amendments to the country’s Cannabis Control Act and Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act will update Japan’s laws to enable a new medical cannabis market while cracking down harder on recreational use. Coming into the new laws criminalise the use of cannabis – previously not a crime under the nation’s near-total cannabis prohibition.
Since the beginning of the war, the Russian military command has deployed around 700,000 soldiers on Ukrainian territory. The invasion has not only brought great instability to the region, but it has also fuelled criminal activities on and around the frontlines, with unique implications for drug use. Although there is some information on the rise of alcohol use both on the frontlines and within Russian society due to the war, much less is known about drug use.
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