Nagoya cram school manager arrested for growing marijuana on school rooftop
AICHI —
A 37-year-old man was arrested under the Cannabis Control Law on Monday, accused of growing marijuana plants on the roof of a branch of a cram school in KitaNagoya City, police said Tuesday.
Kazuomi Fujiwara, instructor and manager of the Nishiharu branch of the Nodajuku cram school chain, is accused of growing six plants in a suitcase found on the rooftop of the school. Police searched the school on Monday after receiving an anonymous tip-off that Fujiwara was growing marijuana plants.
Fujiwara has admitted to the allegation, saying that the marijuana was for personal use and he started growing it hydroponically on the roof in summer last year. He said that the door to the roof had a lock and that students could not access it. He also told police he had been smoking marijuana since he was in high school.
The Nodajuku cram school chain is well-known in Aichi Prefecture, having 53 schools there. The Nishiharu branch has 130 students, ranging in age from fourth-grade elementary school to third-year junior high.
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vultor
Cannabis Control Law? Is there an LSD Control Law too?
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HypnotiqOne
this is way too funny! you gotta love japan! lets learn some English, oh btw, have a smoke!..haha! i wonder who tipped the satsu off though...
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knackerz
another crazed dope fiend jailed, good work boys.
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nandakandamanda
knackerz. Sarcasm doesn't work here. You have just congratulated the guys in blue and they are happy with your comment. "Notch up another approving citizen!"
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happamki
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh usooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Noripinhead
Oh, well, just another cram school going to pot.
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IfeelImust
selling it on the roof! Is that why it's called high school?
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Blissful
Anonymous tip off. Welcome to Japan.
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fairyprince
Spurned girlfriend?
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some14some
Quantity? Market value? Must be expensive, Home grown therefore High Quality.
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dishdash
Sounds like a pretty cool cram teacher - probably made him relaxed. I wonder what his student pass rate was? Probably better than some cigarette-beer swilling oji san.
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Monoflow
There are a lot of Marijuana Smokers in Japan, i know...
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thedeath
it could be. the other day, i smile marijuana smoke in a restaurant we whent. interesting no-one in the restaurant knew that the couple on that particulate table smoke marijuana. or they knew but they just ignore it as always here!? anyway smoke in restaurant suck!
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kirakira25
Love it!
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RomeoRamenII
Great to see another dope fiend taken off the streets of Japan.
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goodDonkey
Wasted energies on a relatively harmless substance. I remember how everybody hated the high school NARC. Both the people who smoked and did not smoke hated the narc. RomeoRamenII, were you the narc?
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goodDonkey
I don't use drugs or drink alcohol but I do however use common sense. The number of OD's from marijuana remains steady year after year throughout the world at zero. Common sense will tell you it is a matter of one sector of society trying to control others. Control Freaks!
I feel sorry for Kazuomi Fujiwara. He was robbing the mob of their profits by growing his own.
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USB
Whaaat? I'm confused. Why was he growing it in a suitcase?
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ca1ic0cat
Yeah, I would hope the suitcase was being used, open, as a planter. I don't know how the plants would get any light otherwise.
Kinda stupid though. Too easy to get caught.
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usaexpat
He was going green, must have purchased a book on urban gardens and decided to grow his favorite crop.
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Fadamor
While it's true that no one ever OD'd on marijuana, it's also true that no one who's stoned has ever performed their duties with due diligence.
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Fadamor
I'll have to take exception to your assertation that no one has OD'd on alcohol. Don't tell me you haven't heard of death by alcohol poisoning?
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ivanpaparaka
no wonder why the children are so quiet :D
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