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Kinasa treats the former village of Kinasa, now part of the city of Nagano, as a historical cannabis growing area: hemp grown there for clothing and tatami thread from the late 16th century until the years after the Second World War. Japan's law on cannabis is treated at Japan.

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Why Kinasa is a growing area

Nagano City's page for the Kinasa Furusato Museum states that hemp was grown in Kinasa from the end of the 16th century, that it was made into clothing and tatami thread and supported the local economy, that Kinasa was a centre of hemp growing and trade from the late 19th to the early 20th century, and that hemp became a vanished industry after the Second World War. The same page writes 大麻 for the crop whose cultivation was banned, so the asa (麻) of Kinasa is cannabis.

How the border is drawn

• The line is the former village of Kinasa as it stood before it was merged into the city of Nagano on 1 January 2005, from the national land numerical information of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (administrative areas as of 1 October 2000, area code 20587): about 130 km², the figure in the infobox. OpenStreetMap has no line for the former village.
• Miasa and Yasaka, to the south, are named in the article for their own early hemp but are not drawn in: the source on them writes asa (麻) only and speaks of a time four centuries ago.
• The infobox point (36.73, 137.99) is the centre of the former village, not a field.

Growing status

The status is Historical. The museum dates growing from the end of the 16th century and its end to the years after the Second World War, but gives no year for either.

Sources

• Kinasa Furusato Museum. A page of the Nagano City Museum, published in Japanese with translations; the Japanese text is the one cited.
• Nihon rekishi chimei taikei. The Miasa village entry, published by Heibonsha, quotes a document of the Hirabayashi family dated the 18th day of the 10th month of Keichō 14 (1609).