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Japan confiscates 1 ton of dried cannabis from Vietnam at Tokyo Port


NHK has learned that Japanese authorities have confiscated about one ton of dried cannabis that was shipped to Tokyo Port from Vietnam.

It is the largest single seizure of illegal drugs in Japan, according to available statistics to date.

The health ministry's Narcotic Control Department has reportedly arrested three Vietnamese nationals for allegedly violating the narcotics control act. They are suspected of conspiring to smuggle cannabis for profit. One of the suspects is 51 years old and a resident of Ibaraki Prefecture.

The department is investigating whether an international drug-smuggling group was involved.

Investigators said Tokyo Customs agents found a large amount of dried cannabis in 200 cardboard boxes on board a cargo ship that had left Da Nang Port in Vietnam. It entered Tokyo Port in June.

The investigators said narcotic control officers tracked the illegal drug while it was being transferred from the port. They confiscated it in the northern Kanto region.

The investigators also said the shipment's intended destination was a company in Osaka City, western Japan.

The amount confiscated is more than double the 452 kilograms of dried cannabis that was seized nationwide by police, narcotic officers and other authorities during 2024.

by Dapper-Material5930

19 comments

  1. That’s an insane amount lol.

    What would you do if you had all this dried cannabis all for yourself?

  4. Party at Yumenoshima Skateboard Park tonight. May move to the Childrens’ baseball field depending on wind.

  5. Oh, so that’s where I left that, I was wondering where I left my one ton package, lol.

  10. I don’t see how 1T of cannabis isn’t related to a drug smuggling ring. That’s too much for a small operation.

  12. A literal shit-ton of weed. Vietnamese weed being shit, that is. Used to get it in Australia. Weak, mouldy crap.

  14. >A ton of weed
    >from another country
    >”The department is investigating whether an international drug-smuggling group was involved.”
    Is there really any question at that point?

  15. I have a very sad weed related story.

    One night I was at some random dive bar in between Yokohama and Tokyo and was just getting shit faced with the owner who was this older fella.

    He knew I was from America, and we were just talking about our shared love for classic rock music, American movies, etc.

    At the end of the night we somehow started talking about weed because of music. As I was going home, he asked me to come behind the counter.

    He’s like “shhhhh”, and took out a tiny bag of weed. He’s like “it is so hard to get this in Japan, I was saving it for a special occasion but I want you to have it”.

    It was one of the nicest gestures anyone has done for me, and my heart swelled up with joy… HOWEVER, it was literally the shittiest fucking weed I have ever seen in my life. I wouldn’t even smoke this weed when I was in my teenage years on the most desperate night. Also I come from southern california and we literally have the best weed in the world. Our worst weed is still 1000x better than this Tokyo weed.

    His weed looked like it was smuggled in tires over the border of mexcio. It was brown, dry, disgusting. I tried to refuse it many times but he INSISTED I take it.

    But I took it and thanked him dearly, then threw out the weed in the trash at the train station. I am shocked by how nice some Japanese people are.

  18. It’s crazy how many people in this thread are openly talking without shame about how they do illegal drugs in a country they’re a guest in.
    Same people who complain that foreigners in Japan are unjustly distrusted, I imagine

  19. Vietnam’s weed is insanely shit.

    Maybe the good weed went through and this VN shit is just a decoy.

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