In decisions on 10 and 27 September, the Supreme Court's First Petty Bench dismissed appeals challenging cannabis controls on constitutional grounds. It accepted the lower courts' findings of harmfulness and rejected the appeals' premise that cannabis was harmless or minimally harmful. The decisions concerned cannabis importation and associated possession controls, leaving the existing restrictions in place.[1]
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References
- 法学教室 no. 64 p. 110 — 大麻の有害性を肯定して大麻取締法の違憲論を退けた最高裁決定, reproduced by CannabistCase headings A and B, factual accounts and reproduced decision extracts; 10 and 27 September 1985archived
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