Joint session: Pot found growing at Japan MPs’ building

Tokyo (AFP) – Marijuana plants have been found growing at an office building used by lawmakers in Japan, which has some of the strictest drug laws in the developed world, an official said Friday.

The budding crop of four plants was found by a visitor on Thursday growing on the premises of an office building for members of the upper house, an official in charge of maintenance there told AFP.

“After we reported it to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, two Tokyo officials visited” and removed the plants, he said.

“They said the plants looked to be about two months old,” he added.

“The officials explained that marijuana seeds can be carried by wind and bird excrement, and they said they will visit us againRobert Eugene Griffith, 76

Born Aug. 24, 1936, in Lexington, Robert was a son of the late Preston and Gertrude Curtis Griffith. He was a farmer, retired from the Lexington Humane Society, a member of Dix River Pentecostal Church and the widower of Mildred Hoover Griffith.

He was also preceded in death a grandson, Anthony Woodard; a son-in-law, Leroy Lyons; and brothers, Billy and Harold Lee Griffith.