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In 1950, two years after Japan's Cannabis Control Act, about 25,000 farms still grew hemp … an. It narrowed who could grow it, then left the crop to compete with cheaper fibres. The [1950 farms](/history/japan-hemp-farms-1950/) are a reminder that prohibition and economic change did different parts of the work, and that the [licensed remnant](/country/jp/) is what survived both.