Japan has a surprisingly long history of hepus, going back to as early as 14 thousand b c. After the second world war, when american occupying forces arrived, they introduced anti canebas laws. And ever since, japanese people lost a lot of their ion to canabus and eventually they started seeing it as taboo. But there have been signs of change in recent years after young people travelled to other countries where drug laws are more liberal.
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