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Normally i consign cocaine to the cocaine column alone – but 73 tonnes of the stuff! Europol EU countries team up against multi-tonne drugs trafficking network as EU-Latin American cooperation intensifies Published on: 14 Mar 2025 A large-scale drug trafficking investigation, supported by Europol, led to the dismantling of an Ecuadorian criminal cell involved in […]
Canna Reporter At its session held today in Vienna, the United Nations Commission on Psychotropic Substances (CND) approved, by qualified majority, the recommendation to include hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. The approval of the WHO recommendation was expected by the industry and was met with the abstention of […]
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Government will provide rehabilitation and de-addiction for individuals caught with a non-commercial quantity of drugs, granting them immunity under Section 64(a) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Interestingly, after Kerala, Punjab ranked second among all states in the country last year for the number of cases registered under the […]
March 13, 2025 Litigation attorney Eric Alexander authored a Drug & Device Law article on the recent case of Eastern Maine Medical Center v. Walgreen Co., highlighting the tactic of “flooding the zone” with excessive claims and its use in opioid litigation. In this case, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine dismissed an extensive 509-page complaint against multiple […]
March 13, 2025 Media You voted to legalize marijuana, but it’s being restricted. Here’s what that means.WEWS: Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law, explained that Senate Bill 56 would not affect medical marijuana. He emphasized that citizens can’t stop the legislative changes, as initiated statutes, like the recreational marijuana law, can be […]
OPB Oregon New Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read on Wednesday withdrew the scandal-marred audit of the state’s liquor and cannabis commission that ended a predecessor’s political career. “My team and I concluded that the selection of the audit, the framework for the audit, and potential predetermination of its conclusions imperiled the audit from the […]
Minnesota Reformer reports A Minnesota district court judge ruled that the state may prosecute Native Americans on most reservations for possessing large amounts of marijuana, allowing a felony case against a White Earth man to proceed. The ruling is the first — though likely not the last — to address state law enforcement’s jurisdiction over […]
Mar. 13, 2025 LCB Board Action: Sales of Cannabis Waste Rules Finalized On March 12, 2025, during its regularly scheduled meeting, the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) took the following cannabis-related action: Final Rules Adopted – Effective April 13, 2025: The Board adopted final rules (CR 103) to amend WAC 314-55-097 to implement Substitute Senate Bill […]
WASHINGTON – Jennifer Brunenkant, 68, of Washington, DC, was charged today in a 19-count indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court with evading and failing to pay federal income and employment taxes associated with her business Herbal Alternatives II, LLC, which at all relevant times operated a marijuana dispensary that was licensed in the District of […]