# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第十八条 (Article 18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-18. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation), 昭和二十三年法律第百二十四号 - English title "Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation": claude-opus-5 - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十八条 (Article 18) — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-18 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条 art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-18 **第一項** 大麻草栽培者は、大麻草の種子を譲り渡す場合には、厚生労働省令で定める方法により当該種子が発芽しないように処理しなければならない。ただし、他の大麻草栽培者に当該種子を譲り渡す場合その他厚生労働省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-18/par-1 When transferring seeds of the Cannabis plant, a Cannabis plant cultivator must treat those seeds so that they do not germinate, by the method prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply when transferring those seeds to another Cannabis plant cultivator or in other cases prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第九条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-9/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-9/par-1/item-3 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-19/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-19/par-1/item-2 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-20/par-1 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十四条の六第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-24-6/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-24-6/par-1/item-4 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5 — English titles of cited laws, written for this site, written 2026-09-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000124/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-01 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch cannabis-cultivation-act-20261101T163143-003, translated 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 222 — 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-01