Japanese police took action against a record 3,008 people in cases involving marijuana in 2017, up 472 from the previous year, National Police Agency data showed Thursday.The data showed a notable increase in marijuana cases embroiling people aged below 20, raising concern that use of the drug is becoming more widespread among juveniles.The number of people that came to the police's attention per 100,000 doubled to 3.0 in 2017 from 2013, while the number of those aged between 14 and 19 saw more than a five-fold increase to 4.1 from 0.8 and that of people in their 20s increased to 9.4 from 4…READ FULL ARTICLE
