
(Possession with intent to get groovy.)
First EliteXC shuts down and now this. Former Pride fighter and MMA veteran Enson Inoue was popped for marijuana possession in Tokyo this past weekend. The forty-one-year-old fighter was nailed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, and he admitted to getting the weed from an acquaintance and “inhaling three or four times in a month“:
According to reports at both Mainichi Daily News and Nikkan Sports, a policeman busted Inoue at 3 PM JST on the 18th (Saturday) at a coin-parking machine in (Ikebukuro) Toshima city (Tokyo). During a car inspection, the policeman discovered marijuana cigarettes (up to 16.9 grams of marijuana) in the car’s sunroof, door compartment, and pocket(s) of Inoue’s clothing.
Damn, Enson. In the sunroof? Really?
As you may or may not know, marijuana laws in Japan are pretty strict, as an unfortunate Russian sumo wrestler found out earlier this year, so this could go badly for Inoue. 16.9 grams is enough to get you in hot water lots of places, but especially in a country that’s been coming down hard on pot-smoking pro athletes lately. Ironic, considering it’s known to MMA fans as the home of rampant steroid use.
Best of luck, Enson. In trying times like these, who can blame a man for keeping a marijuana cigarette in his sunroof?


haha, i live in Osaka and I can tell you, Japan is not the place to smoke weed. There is a zero tolerance rule and you can face about 5 years in prison. The fun thing about Japans legal system is that they convict about 99 percent of people accused of a crime. Sorry Enson, but you gotta leave that shit for Hawaii.