#legal-penalties

#legal-penalties

In mid-November, a local TV station in Kochi Prefecture reported that an American man who had served as a tourism ambassador for the small coastal city of Susaki had been indicted on October 21 for alleged possession of dried cannabis. The man, identified in Japanese reports as 39-year-old "David Bujadana" or "David Buhadana," was later investigated on suspicion of arranging for narcotics to be shipped from the United States to Japan,

The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed district judge David Hittner's 2023 ruling that Senate Bill 12 was unconstitutional, meaning businesses could be fined $10,000 (£7,600) for hosting so-called sexually oriented performances. Drag artists could be charged with a class-A misdemeanour, punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 (£3,000).

According to the CPS, "A person obstructs a constable if he prevents him from carrying out his duties or makes it more difficult for him to do so."