The boxing club of Tokyo University of Agriculture, which has produced Kazusho Ioka and others, is also in a unique situation: “A series of marijuana problems have occurred in a prestigious athletic club.

〈Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) takes the situation very seriously regarding the arrest of a TUAT student on suspicion of violating the Marijuana Control Law. We deeply apologize for this matter.

The apology was posted on the website of Tokyo University of Agriculture (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo) on July 12. On the same day, student A (19), a member of the university’s boxing club, and his acquaintance B (19), a man of unknown occupation, were arrested by the Drugs and Firearms Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of violating the Marijuana Control Law (joint possession for profit).

At around 2 am on July 4, an officer of the Takaido Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department spotted a suspicious car parked on a street in Kamikitazawa, Setagaya Ward. When the police officers questioned him about his duties, they found dried marijuana and marijuana resin inside the car. The dried marijuana amounted to 7.8 grams (equivalent to about 39,000 yen).

Normally, about 0.5 g of marijuana is used when inhaling marijuana, which means that he had nearly 16 times the amount of dried marijuana in his possession. The car belonged to B. The police determined that he was in possession of marijuana for commercial purposes. The two arrested have yet to be identified,” said a reporter from a national newspaper.

TUAT’s boxing club is a prestigious one, having won the All-Japan University title eight times. It has produced many top-level boxers, including former WBC world flyweight champion Toshiyuki Igarashi and current WBC world super flyweight champion Kazusho Ioka (who dropped out and turned pro). However, …….

The boxing club has been suspended indefinitely following the incident. The director and head of the department have submitted their resignation letters, and the university will accept them after a series of actions are completed.

The music has improved.”

Tokyo University of Agriculture is not the only prestigious athletic club whose officials have been caught with marijuana.

By July 12, Kyoto Prefectural Police had arrested five men aged 18-19, including former members of the rugby club of Kyoto Seisho High School (Kyoto City), on suspicion of violating the Marijuana Control Law (possession, transfer, etc.). Three of them were former members of the school’s rugby team. The Kyoto Seisho Rugby Club is a strong team that has participated in the national tournament (Hanazono) 15 times. The team has been runner-up once and in the top four four on four occasions.

One of the former club members was in possession of about 1.7 grams of marijuana in a plastic bag when he was at a driver’s license examination center in Kyoto City on March 30. Another former club member received about 1.3 g of marijuana from this man for about 5,000 yen.

The five arrested admitted to the charges and said the following to the investigators. They are said to have said, “Since I started using marijuana, my food tastes better,” and “My hearing of music has improved.

This is not the only marijuana problem at a prestigious athletic association. In recent years, there have been a series of problems.

In January 2008. In January 2008, a member of Nihon University’s rugby team was caught red-handed possessing marijuana on a street in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.

October 2008. Several members of Tokai University’s baseball team used marijuana. They withdrew from the fall league games.

October 2008. Several members of Kinki University’s soccer team used marijuana. They withdrew from the league matches that were being held.

Why do young people turn to marijuana so easily?

Some young people are not very cautious about drugs, and in some cases their curiosity gets the better of them when they see trafficking sites such as social networking sites. Many members of prestigious sports clubs live together in dormitories, and if one person starts using, there is a high risk that it will spread within the club. I think the instructors should take a lesson from the series of incidents and teach the club members well about the dangers of drugs.

According to the Ministry of Justice’s White Paper on Crime, the number of arrests for marijuana has exceeded 5,000 for three consecutive years until last year and is on the rise. Most of them are young people in their teens and 20s.