hotcooter said:I don't know if Yakuza are doing anything about the demand for cannabis on a significant scale, anyone know the answer to that question?
They will buy up just about anything you can make. I don't think they are very proactive about it but I know some of them are getting into growing, or at least setting people up to grow. This past summer some teenage girls were caught growing in a greenhouse that they had broke into. It was discovered they had yakuza boyfriends. They say that about 1/3 of the GNP is in the black market in Japan and controlled by the Yakuza. Tokyo is filled with kids from the country who come here to make it big; something like kids going to NY in the states and most of them find out that they can't get by and end up taking part time jobs in different Yakuza controlled business so there is a huge supply of desperate kids willing to grow. Once the know-how becomes more accessable it will explode I think.