• xenoclast@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Like smoking, alcohol is a huge industry in Japan. It’s “normal” for Japanese companies to addict their employees to their products and because the companies ARE the government, they enact incredibly protectionist laws like this to prevent external competition.

    Their economy depends on it. It’s super gross. Like America and guns, or Sweden and flatpak furniture (the last one is a half joke)

    If Japan starts being a cannabis producer, they’ll 180 so fast you’ll get vertigo.