Keio student gets suspended sentence for possessing marijuana

Wednesday 05th November, 12:14 PM JST

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fatloser at 02:53 PM JST - 5th November

Who thinks the seller will get off just with a repremand! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh..I do!!
tmarie at 04:12 PM JST - 5th November

I wonder if they found the gaijin that sold it to the Japanese dealer. Rolls eyes.
WMD at 04:12 PM JST - 5th November

ridiculous sentance for having a little bit of the good stuff. Let's have prison sentances for possessing hard drugs like tobacco and alcohol. They cause real damage.
outofmydepth at 04:30 PM JST - 5th November

keio univeristy. suspended sentence. coincidence? teach those kids young - you do the crime - if you are in a famous company, school, etc. - you don`t have to do the time.
fatloser at 04:55 PM JST - 5th November

WMD if you can start a company that can advertise I'm sure you'll be able to sell weed. But you'll have to create jobs and pass lots of advertising money around first. So quit crying and start thinking!!!
BBLeo at 06:52 PM JST - 5th November

Imposing suspended sentence on student, is somehow fair. But in my books it should be given another chance, and ' with not recorded' her conviction. You have just ruined her life for good. She brought marijuaqna from Brazilian, is that correct? Get this 'scumbag' and hang him.
buffalo at 09:06 PM JST - 5th November

a total of six undergraduate and graduate students as well as a lecturer of the university have been arrested for violation of the law between 2004 and 2008, according to the university.

Is this a problem within the university? sounds like the students are out of control!
FineDiner at 09:25 PM JST - 5th November

Last night I walked through Takadanobaba. There is a tobacco store on the corner of the main intersection near Big Box with packets and pictures of cigs at the same level as the eyesight of elementary school aged children. That is the real crime happening in this country along with all the legalised kiddie porn.
smithinjapan at 10:21 PM JST - 5th November

While I don't think the person should really be punished -- marijuana is not as big a crime as what tobacco companies are doing to kids, etc., as another poster said -- I couldn't help but laugh at yet ANOTHER 'suspended sentence'. What's more, it's already being fobbed off on the 'evil Brazilian', as if the person FORCED this student to buy/sell marijuana and the poor child had no choice but to do so. The Brazilian? I'd bet he/she gets deported at least... not suspended!
timorborder at 11:53 PM JST - 5th November

Should have got life for this. Zero tolerance - transport him to Saitama!!
Freakenese at 09:40 AM JST - 6th November

Japan is sooooo much safer now.
nisegaijin at 09:50 AM JST - 6th November

their lives are f00ked.
they won't be able to get good jobs anywhere in the world now.
soldave at 10:16 AM JST - 6th November

Lucky he wasn't a foreign sumo wrestler or he'd have been in trouble instead of just getting a slap on the wrists.
proxy at 07:10 PM JST - 6th November

I have a related question. If he or the other students were 19 at the time, not legally adults, do they expunge their record when they become adults?