Ex-Japanese Olympic snowboarder gets suspended term for smuggling cannabis

A court on Tuesday sentenced former Olympic snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo to three years in prison, suspended for four years, for smuggling cannabis from the United States.The Tokyo District Court found the 31-year-old conspired with a male acquaintance, already found guilty, to smuggle around 57 grams of a cannabis product in December 2018 from the United States by hiding it using Express Mail Service to Tokyo that arrived at Narita airport."He has been using cannabis regularly for more than 10 years, his deep connection with it is notable and we can't rule out the possibility of him repeati…READ FULL ARTICLE