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Feb 28
Ohio – Statehouse News Bureau: Ohio Senate again passes bill making big changes to cannabis program

The Ohio Senate passed a GOP-led proposal by a 21-9 vote Wednesday to overhaul the state’s relatively young recreational marijuana program, and senators voted along party lines, unlike in December 2023. Streamlines the licensing process for dispensaries and other industry facilities; Eliminates Level III cultivator licenses, also known as social equity licenses; Prohibits licensure of […]

Feb 28
Kosovo: Discovery of underground hashish cultivation, Peja prosecutor: We suspect a drug laboratory

Kosovo Police conducted a raid on Tuesday in the village of Novoselle in Peja, on suspicion of cultivating hashish plants or cocaine bushes. Regarding this case, the prosecutor of the Basic Prosecution Office in Peja, Agim Kurmehaj, told Telegraf that there are suspicions of a drug laboratory. “We suspect that we have found a laboratory […]

Feb 28
Australia: Penington Institute chief says communications companies too scaredy cat to work on cannabis campaign

Cannabiz  Read full article (paywall) Communications firm ‘sacked us’ over Victoria cannabis campaign, says Penington Institute chief

Feb 28
New Zealand: Police bust ‘Gandalf’, leaving hundreds without medicinal cannabis

Stuff NZ Police have raided “Gandalf”, a renowned “Green Fairy”, destroying greenhouses that supplied hundreds of patients with black market medicinal cannabis. The 66-year-old from Northland is devastated and concerned for the people he says he helps. He is one of New Zealand’s most well-known “Green Fairies”, a term used to describe those who provide […]

Feb 28
Italy : Pesaro, 30-year-old arrested and hashish packaged inside chewing gum packets seized.

and this week’s unfortunate small time dealer is …. The Financial Police of Pesaro and Urbino, within the framework of ainvestigation into drug trafficking, performed a house search of a person residing in the areas surrounding Pesaro. During the search, the military and the canine unit found approximately 600 grams of hashish, already portioned into small loaves of […]

Feb 28
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa set to open cannabis dispensary on tribal land in northern Minnesota

The Bois Forte Band of Chippewa will open a new 2,000 square foot cannabis dispensary near Fortune Bay Resort Casino and RV park near the town of Tower. “If the tribe does business the right way this will be a huge game changer for Bois Forte,” interim tribal council chair Shane Drift said in a […]

Feb 28
Canada: RCMP cannabis raids violate treaty rights, say Mi’kmaw dispensary owners in N.S.

Cannabis, cash and firearms recently seized from 13 homes and sheds, including on Mi’kmaw reserves RCMP have laid dozens of charges against 21 people after raiding cannabis dispensaries they say have been operating illegally across Nova Scotia, including on four Mi’kmaw reserves, prompting a protest by advocates of Indigenous treaty rights. Supt. Jason Popik said the months-long investigation targeted […]

Feb 28
MAPS Releases Template to Assist in Federal Drug Sentencing Reform Efforts

In January, the U.S. Sentencing Commission announced proposed amendments to federal drug sentencing guidelines, including lowering the highest base offense level for drug sentences. The proposal also considers reducing sentences for drug offenses that meet specific mitigating factors. This marks the first time in years that substantive changes to federal drug sentencing guidelines have been […]

Feb 28
NZ: Bloom Pink Kush has been verified as meeting the minimum quality standard.

Medicinal cannabis products that meet the minimum quality standard The Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations) set the minimum quality standard that medicinal cannabis products and ingredients must meet before they can be supplied in New Zealand. Importers, manufacturers, and suppliers must apply for assessment and provide evidence to the Medicinal Cannabis […]