Record 1 ton of cannabis, worth $35 mil., seized in Japan

Japanese narcotics agents said Wednesday they have seized 1.046 tons of cannabis worth about 5.2 billion yen ($35 million) on the street, marking Japan's largest-ever single-raid illegal drug haul.The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's Narcotics Control Department has arrested three Vietnamese nationals for allegedly smuggling the cannabis hidden in a shipping container and possessing it at a material yard in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, it said.The three have been indicted on charges of violating the narcotics control law.READ FULL ARTICLE