Tokyo [Japan], November 15 (ANI): Gummies allegedly containing substances derived from hashish are below police investigation after 9 individuals who consumed them in Tokyo have been taken to the hospital just lately, investigative sources mentioned on Wednesday, Kyodo News reported.
After consuming the gummies, 5 individuals of their teenagers to 50s, fell sick and have been taken to the hospital on November 4. The gummies have been handed out by a person throughout a pageant held at a park in western Tokyo, the sources mentioned, including that their signs included vomiting.
The man later admitted to handing out the gummies. He mentioned: “Since I ate some myself and felt good afterwards, I wanted everyone else to eat them.”The gummies have been a product manufactured by an organization based mostly in Osaka City in western Japan. The substances included HHCH, or Hexahydrocannabinol, in line with the Tokyo metropolitan and Osaka governments.
HHCH is an artificial substance with a construction much like tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a constituent of hashish, and might trigger results corresponding to hallucinations and reminiscence impairment.
According to the well being ministry, whereas THC is banned in Japan, HHCH just isn’t.
In one other case, 4 individuals of their 20s have been taken to hospital on November 3 after falling sick at Oshiage Station, a railway station in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward, police mentioned.
One of them was quoted by police as saying that they felt sick after “eating a cannabis gummy before riding the train.” Although the 2 circumstances occurred on consecutive days, investigators suspect they’re unrelated, police mentioned, as per Kyodo News. (ANI)