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Green Thumb Industries Inc. (GTBIF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript Ben Kovler Thanks, Shay. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining our fourth quarter and year-end 2024 conference call. It’s been an interesting start to the new year as the new administration takes office in DC. There were high hopes for Federal Reform […]
GRENADA has said it will decriminalise marijuana for religious and recreational use. Agriculture Minister Lennox Andrews said the changes will take place before the end of the second half of 2025. The Grenadian Government will bring legislation to Parliament that will decriminalise marijuana for religious and recreational use. “We were hoping to have this done […]
Here’s the latest vis independent journalist Grant – Smith Ellis By: Grant Smith-Ellis Date: 3/4/25 Time: 6:10am ET There have been some interesting developments on the docket as to the shocking ongoing case between former CCC Chair Shannon O’Brien and State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg. To begin, we now know the names of the people […]
Very rarely does a cocaine story make it out of our cocaine column but this one, as they say, tickled me. A bus full of men posing as musicians on the way to a gig in Texas was stopped at the southern border, and a search revealed a $2.7 million drug smuggling attempt, officials say. […]
Luxembourg authorities have seized 508 kilograms of cocaine at the Cargo Center of Findel Airport, marking the largest air freight drug bust in the country’s history. The haul, with an estimated street value of nearly 100 million euros, was discovered in early February in a shipment from Brazil. Customs officers flagged the cargo – labelled […]
ATLANTA — A federal jury has convicted Ivan Van Beverhoudt of St. Thomas USVI, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, for his role in smuggling more than 16 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. The verdict follows a five-day trial, where prosecutors outlined how Van Beverhoudt exploited his official position to bypass security measures and transport […]
An 18-year-old wanted to “scare” a 20-year-old woman he suspected of stealing his drugs, then he fatally shot her in her front yard, Florida authorities said. Gael Garcia-Castro ran away with a witness and jumped in an Uber, but he’s now turned himself in and been charged with second-degree murder, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office […]
SAFEGUARDING THE NATION: President Donald J. Trump is proceeding with implementing tariffs on Canada and Mexico under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to combat the extraordinary threat to U.S. national security, including our public health posed by unchecked drug trafficking. While President Trump gave both Canada and Mexico ample opportunity to curb the dangerous […]
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraqi anti-narcotics forces on Tuesday said that nearly two tons of illicit substances have been seized since the beginning of the year, with 2,000 arrests made in the process. Hussein al-Tamimi, spokesperson for Iraq’s narcotics directorate, told Rudaw that more than 1 ton and 750 kilograms of various types of illicit […]
My educated guess that 90% of the money went to middle men/women, “enablers”, consultants who helped themselves to the cash and now the business owners are left with the bill and the state is to be blamed. They shouldn’t have been so loose with their money and they shouldn’t have let all the parasites anywhere […]