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[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Like smoking, alcohol is a huge industry in Japan. It's "normal" for Japanese companies to addict their employees to their products and because the companies ARE the government, they enact incredibly protectionist laws like this to prevent external competition.

Their economy depends on it. It's super gross. Like America and guns, or Sweden and flatpak furniture (the last one is a half joke)

If Japan starts being a cannabis producer, they'll 180 so fast you'll get vertigo.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 3 months ago

I bet they'd produce some bomb ass bud though. It would also look pretty as fuck as each nug is meticulously sculpted into a tiny little bonsai.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

One hundred percent.

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