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The Arrest Paralyzing a Beatle: Paul Mccartney's Nine Days in a Jail in Japan

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Paul McCartney was forced to cancel a tour of the Far East in 2014 when a virus took him to a Tokyo hospital. The funny thing is that that wasn’t even his worst experience in Japan Macca was arrested on January 16, 1980 at Tokyo Narita International Airport for trying to introduce a kilo of marijuana into the country. “We were about to fly to Japan and I knew I couldn’t get anything to smoke there. This was too good to throw it down the toilet, …
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Paul McCartney was forced to cancel a tour of the Far East in 2014 when a virus took him to a Tokyo hospital. The funny thing is that that wasn’t even his worst experience in Japan Macca was arrested on January 16, 1980 at Tokyo Narita International Airport for trying to introduce a kilo of marijuana into the country. “We were about to fly to Japan and I knew I couldn’t get anything to smoke there. This was too good to throw it down the toilet, …

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Futuro broke the news in on Sunday, January 25, 2026.
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