Yomiuri: High schooler arrested over drug deal at school
A 17-year-old male high school student was arrested Friday on suspicion of passing marijuana to a classmate in a classroom at their school in Osaka Prefecture, police said. According to the Osaka prefectural police, the third-year student at the prefectural high school handed over a total of 1.09 grams of marijuana on Nov. 6 and 9 to the 18-year-old classmate. The classmate had already been sent to family court on suspicion of possessing marijuana. The student allegedly said to the classmate: "I've got weed. Why don't you buy it?" The classmate paid about 9,000 yen in total for the marijuana.