Japan's third five-year drug strategy combined prevention education, treatment and rehabilitation, action against trafficking networks and border controls. It identified rising cannabis arrests and the predominance of younger people among cannabis and synthetic-drug cases as concerns, and called for stronger school and university prevention work. The strategy set policy priorities without itself creating a new cannabis offence.[1][2]
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References
- 厚生労働省 — 第三次薬物乱用防止五か年戦略 (August 2008)Printed pp. 1–4, situation assessment, four goals and youth prevention measuresarchived
- 厚生労働省 — 薬物乱用対策, adoption date of the third strategySection 1(2), decision on 22 August 2008 (Heisei 20)archived
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