Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation
大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律
Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 27 terms: 1 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 26 in our translation, marked as such.
都道府県知事
The governor (知事) of the prefecture in which the cultivation site lies.
大麻
The cannabis plant (大麻草) other than its seeds and mature stalks, and products made from it other than products that no longer have the form of the cannabis plant.
大麻草（その種子及び成熟した茎を除く。）及びその製品（大麻草としての形状を有しないものを除く。）
第一種大麻草採取栽培者
A person who, under a license (免許) from the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 5, paragraph (1), grows cannabis plants to harvest raw materials for products made from them, limited to products of the seeds or mature stalks and others a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, including products that no longer have the plant's form.
第五条第一項の規定により都道府県知事の免許を受けて、大麻草から製造される製品（大麻草としての形状を有しないものを含み、種子又は成熟した茎の製品その他の厚生労働省令で定めるものに限る。）の原材料を採取する目的で、大麻草を栽培する者
Seeds of the cannabis plant that have not been treated, by the method Article 18 requires and a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, so that they cannot germinate.
免許
In Chapter II, the license from the governor of the prefecture where the cultivation site lies that a person needs to become a type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator.
免許
The license from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1) that a person needs to become a type 2 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator or a cannabis plant research cultivator.
第十三条第一項に規定する免許
A person who grows cannabis plants in order to research them, under a license (免許) from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1).
第十三条第一項の規定により厚生労働大臣の免許を受けて、大麻草を研究する目的で、大麻草を栽培する者
A person licensed to grow cannabis plants under this Act: a type 1 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator, a type 2 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator or a cannabis plant research cultivator.
第一種大麻草採取栽培者、第二種大麻草採取栽培者及び大麻草研究栽培者
第二種大麻草採取栽培者
A person who, under a license (免許) from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1), grows cannabis plants to harvest raw materials for pharmaceuticals (医薬品) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
第十三条第一項の規定により厚生労働大臣の免許を受けて、医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律（昭和三十五年法律第百四十五号）第二条第一項に規定する医薬品の原料を採取する目的で、大麻草を栽培する者
免許
The license from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1) that a person needs to become a type 2 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator or a cannabis plant research cultivator.
The date Act No. 84 of 2023, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 84 of 2023.
第二号施行日
1 March 2025, the date the provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 2023, among them its Article 2, which amended this Act a second time, came into effect.
In Article 12-8, a person whose license (免許) has expired without a new one, a person whose license was revoked under Article 12-6, paragraph (1) or Article 12-7, paragraph (2), and a person, such as an heir, liquidator or bankruptcy trustee, who must notify the authorities under Article 12-7, paragraph (3) that a cultivator has died or been dissolved.
This Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 84 of 2023, the second stage of that Act's amendments, which came into effect on 1 March 2025.
The day the 2022 Act amending the Penal Code and other laws (刑法等の一部を改正する法律, Act No. 67 of 2022) comes into effect.
An organized crime group member as defined in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organized Crime Group Members, or a person who ceased to be one less than five years ago.
In Article 12-4, each of the two periods of the year, January to June and July to December, for which a cultivator must obtain permission from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) to process cannabis plants, including extracting their components.
免許
The license from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) under Article 13, paragraph (1) that a person needs to become a type 2 cannabis plant harvesting cultivator or a cannabis plant research cultivator.
第十三条第一項に規定する免許
麻薬製造業者
A narcotics manufacturer as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (xii) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act: a person licensed by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣) to manufacture narcotics (麻薬) as a business, including refining them and chemically changing one narcotic into another.
麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第二条第一項第十二号に規定する麻薬製造業者
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day that Act comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 84 of 2023 amended it.