A person who cultivates a Cannabis plant without due cause is punished by imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than 10 years.
大麻草をみだりに栽培した者は、一年以上十年以下の拘禁刑に処する。
When a person commits the crime in the preceding paragraph for profit, the person who committed that crime is punished by imprisonment for a definite term of not less than one year or, in light of the circumstances, by imprisonment for a definite term of not less than one year and a fine of not more than 5,000,000 yen.
営利の目的で前項の罪を犯したときは、当該罪を犯した者は、一年以上の有期拘禁刑に処し、又は情状により一年以上の有期拘禁刑及び五百万円以下の罰金に処する。
An attempt to commit the crime in the preceding two paragraphs is also punished.
前二項の未遂罪は、罰する。
cannabis plantmachine translation
「大麻草」
The plant Cannabis sativa L. (カンナビス・サティバ・リンネ).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.