Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events, shaping your world.

More than a decade ago, a national radio station was launched for people in prison in England

and Wales.

We hear from those who made it a success and who have helped the idea to go international.

And marijuana is both illegal and socially unacceptable in Japan, but a loophole permits

the use and sale of CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabis derivative, and it's proving popular

with Japan's sizeable elderly population.

First up though.

At the start of the war in Ukraine, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Schultz came under fire for

not doing much to help.

By last week, when he joined other European leaders in Ukraine's capital Kiev, his intentions

were clear.

Germany was breaking with tradition in the past.

The first shipment of German heavy weaponry has arrived in Ukraine this week, giant cannons

on tank-like trucks called Panzerhalbetsa, cannons with a range in the tens of kilometers.

Western leaders continue to make promises, to write checks, to promise solidarity.

But as ever, the focus for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the biggest, the most

consistently, is for more weaponry.

The more powerful weapons we get, he said, the faster we can liberate our people, our

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