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5. I looked up the 1953 law on a Japanese web site

Fri Feb 28, 2014, 11:44 PM

Feb 2014

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The official Japanese name is 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法 ("Mayaku oyobi Kouseishin'yaku Torishimari-hou&quot and it was enacted on March 17, 1953, less than 2 months into the Eisenhower administration. So yes, I would imagine that there probably was some pressure from the new administration for this law.

Its precedent was a 1948 law which specifically dealt with marijuana (Taima Torishimari-hou), and required government authorization to deal in marijuana since "its resins, etc., contain the same types of toxins as narcotics"

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