Illness-inducing, cannabis-traced gummies under probe in Tokyo

Gummies allegedly containing substances derived from cannabis are under police investigation after nearly 10 people who ate them were taken to hospital recently in Tokyo, investigative sources said Wednesday.

Five people aged from their teens to their 50s developed minor illnesses on Nov. 4 after eating the gummies, which were handed out by a man during a festival held at a park in western Tokyo, the sources said, adding that their symptoms included vomiting.

The festival’s organizer has identified the man who handed out the gummies and has alerted the police, the sources added.

In another case, four people in their 20s were taken to hospital on Nov. 3 after feeling sick at Oshiage Station, a railway station in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward, police said.

One of them was quoted by police as saying that the illness resulted from “eating a cannabis gummy before riding the train.”

Although the two cases occurred on consecutive days, investigators suspect they are unrelated, police said.

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