Police in Yokohama arrested Japan-based Canadian actor Jai West on Thursday on suspicion of smuggling into Japan cookies containing marijuana from Canada. West, 32, has appeared in a television commercial for Tokyo Gas Co and some Japanese television dramas, according to his office’s website.
West is suspected of having 330g of marijuana cookies sent to home from Vancouver. He was also found to have 1.5 grams of marijuana at his home when Kanagawa police officers searched there in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward on March 12.
