# 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 / Act on Regulation of Cannabis Cultivation — 第二十一条の二 (Article 21-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2. 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: 第二十一条の二 (Article 21-2) — address `art-21-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十一条の二 art-21-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、この法律の規定にかかわらず、大麻草に関する犯罪鑑識の用に供する目的で大麻草の種子を輸入し、又は譲り受けることができる。 art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, import or receive seeds of the Cannabis plant for the purpose of crime lab investigation related to the Cannabis plant. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定により輸入し、又は譲り受けた大麻草の種子を、大麻草に関する犯罪鑑識を行う国又は都道府県の機関に交付するものとする。 art-21-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to deliver the seeds of the Cannabis plant imported or received pursuant to the provisions in the preceding paragraph to the organizations of the national government or of a prefecture responsible for the crime lab investigation related to the Cannabis plant. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の機関に勤務する職員は、当該機関が同項の規定により厚生労働大臣から交付を受けた大麻草の種子を、大麻草に関する犯罪鑑識のため、使用し、又は栽培することができる。 art-21-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-3 An official who works for an organization of the preceding paragraph may use or cultivate the seeds of the Cannabis plant that the organization has received from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, for crime lab investigations related to the Cannabis plant. machine translation, not official **第四項** 第二項の規定により厚生労働大臣から大麻草の種子の交付を受けた機関の長は、帳簿を備え、これに、大麻草に関する犯罪鑑識のため使用した大麻草の種子の品名及び数量並びにその年月日その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を記載しなければならない。 art-21-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-4 The head of an organization who receives the seeds of the Cannabis plant delivered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions in paragraph (2) must keep an accounting book and state the name and quantity of seeds of the Cannabis plant used in crime lab investigation related to the Cannabis plant, the respective date and other information specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in it. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21-2/par-2: 前項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十一条の二第一項 (Article 21-2, paragraph (1)), art-21-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-1 - art-21-2/par-3: 前項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十一条の二第二項 (Article 21-2, paragraph (2)), art-21-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-2 - art-21-2/par-4: 第二項 → 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十一条の二第二項 (Article 21-2, paragraph (2)), art-21-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-2 ## Cited by 3 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 第二十一条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-2 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十一条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-3 - 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 第二十一条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/cannabis-cultivation-act/art-21-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000124/art-21-2/par-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-20261101T163143-004, translated 2026-11-02 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch cannabis-cultivation-act-20261101T163143-004, 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