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Apr 02
FBI Denies Delaware’s Background Check Request, Delaying Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Launch

The federal agency’s standard collides with Delaware Code, forcing the state’s cannabis regulators to work with lawmakers to draft new legislation. Cannabis Business Times Delaware’s plan to commence adult-use cannabis sales this spring has been upended. State cannabis regulators with the Office of the Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) announced March 31 that the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]

Apr 02
Article: Oregon has spent $46 million fighting black market cannabis. Officials can’t tell if it’s working

The tales of illicit cannabis operations were coming from all corners of Oregon, and by 2018 — four years after the state voted to legalize recreational weed — lawmakers were feeling the pressure to act. Workers on unlicensed grows just miles north of California were sleeping in shipping containers and being held on site by armed guards. […]

Apr 02
Filament Health posts $5M loss in 2024, faces liquidity concerns

Green Market Report The clinical-stage natural psychedelic company showed progress in its drug development pipeline while dealing with a shrinking runway. Filament Health Corp. (OTCQB: FLHLF) (Cboe CA: FH) reported a net loss of $4.97 million for 2024 while the botanical psychedelic drug developer expanded its clinical trial programs and intellectual property portfolio.   https://www.greenmarketreport.com/filament-health-posts-5m-loss-in-2024-faces-liquidity-concerns/

Apr 02
Report: Cocaine connections: Links between the Western Balkans and South America

    Over the last two decades, criminal networks from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia have transitioned from regional actors to key players in the global cocaine supply chain. These groups have forged strategic relationships with coca producers, criminal organizations, and business circles across South America, especially in Colombia, Peru, […]

Apr 02
Canadian Psychedelic Trade Association Calls Out Trudeau Government, Calls on Carney and Poilievre to Improve Federal Regulations for Novel Mental Care

Press Release Canadian Psychedelic Trade Association Calls Out Trudeau Government, Calls on Carney and Poilievre to Improve Federal Regulations for Novel Mental Care TORONTO, April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PsyCan, the national trade association representing Canada’s legally operating psychedelic medicine and therapy companies, is calling on the Carney and Poilievre campaigns to commit to […]

Apr 02
Colorado has licensed its first psilocybin healing center

I can’t tell you much about it at the moment because the Denver Post are the only people reporting and it’s behind a paywall I did try the CO Natural Medicine Div site but that’s down so no joy there either. Here’s the link for reference Colorado licenses its first psilocybin healing center   Ahh.. […]

Apr 02
Job Ad – Australia: General Practitioner – Medicinal Cannabis At Ease @$AUD350 Per Hour ..”This fully remote role offers flexible hours and a lucrative payment structure”

They certainly aren’t easing up on the overpaid doctor prescribers who let’s be honest are as knowledgeable as I am on medical cannabis by this stage of the proceedings. I’m sure there are a few out there who know their stuff but they were all snapped up a few years back Ease(y) money. My anaesthetist […]

Apr 02
Officers seize 2,000 pounds of cannabis from U-Haul after crash in California

California (KPIX) — California Highway Patrol officers in the East Bay said they arrested the driver of a U-Haul rental box truck and seized more than one ton of cannabis, following a crash on Interstate 580 last week. According to the agency’s Dublin office, a crash between the U-Haul and another vehicle took place around […]

Apr 02
£1m of cocaine found hidden in electric wheelchair at Manchester Airport

UK – BBC Cocaine with a street value of almost £1m was found stashed in an electric wheelchair at Manchester Airport after a flight from Barbados. Border Force officers scanned the wheelchair and found it contained 11 packages, weighing 12kg (26.4lbs) on Sunday 30 March. Portuguese national Casimiro De Lemos Francisco, 56, has been charged […]

Apr 02
USA: House Democrat wants to drug test Musk and DOGE staff

A House Democrat is introducing long-shot legislation that would force billionaire Trump lieutenant Elon Musk and his staffers at DOGE to undergo routine drug testing, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) cited a Wall Street Journal report from 2024 that alleged Musk has used illegal drugs including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine as the impetus […]