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One of Europe’s most wanted drugs traffickers has been shot dead by hitmen in an underground car park in Mexico City. Dutch criminal Marco Ebben had been on the run for years after fleeing from the Netherlands where he was facing a seven year prison sentence for cocaine trafficking. The 32-year-old had been convicted of […]
The Scotland Sun The idyllic islands and inlets of the northwest Highlands became a paradise for smugglers as local fishermen became global drug traffickers A SMALL fishing town’s part in a multimillion-pound global drug smuggling ring is set to be explored in a new documentary. Locals in Ullapool, Highlands, were left stunned when a massive […]
On Thursday, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche offloaded about 17 tonnes of cocaine to a pier in San Diego, a haul worth a combined $275 million wholesale in the U.S. From December through February, Waesche was operating in the Eastern Pacific in the drug-trafficking zones off southern Mexico and Central America. They carried out 11 […]
Header Image Tess Bettler, a lobbyist for biotech company Compass Pathways, testifies before the Kansas House health committee on Feb. 11, 2025, on a bill that would preemptively legalize a psilocybin pill if certain federal changes occur. (Kansas Reflector screen capture of the Kansas Legislature YouTube channel) The Lawrence Times TOPEKA — A biotech company […]
Press Release VANCOUVER, BC , Feb. 14, 2025 /CNW/ – Numinus Wellness Inc. (“Numinus” or the “Company”) (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX: NUMIF) (FSE: LR23), a mental healthcare company advancing traditional and innovative behavioral health treatments including safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the wind-down of certain non-operating subsidiaries as part of the Company’s efforts […]
A federal appellate court has upheld the Drug Enforcement Administration’s denial of a Seattle doctor’s request to use psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, to treat terminally ill cancer patients. Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, co-director of the Advanced Integrative Medical Science Institute, had sought approval from the DEA to provide psilocybin to his patients with […]
Windsor police say they have seized magic mushrooms from a downtown dispensary for a sixth time since the summer of 2023. On Feb. 12, members of the Drugs and Guns Unit executed a search warrant in the 300 block of Ouellette Avenue, which is where a dispensary known as FunGuyz is located. Officers charged a 22-year-old employee with drug possession […]
Switzerland could be a step closer to legalising cannabis for non-medical use after a parliamentary health commission voted 14 versus 9 in favour of a draft bill on the subject, reported RTS. Currently, the cultivation, sale and consumption of cannabis for non-medical use is a fineable offence in Switzerland. Since 2023, there have been short […]
Pending agreements between Gov. Tim Walz and ten of Minnesota’s 11 tribal nations are close to being finalized. They would give a share of the new cannabis industry to tribal nations and businesses they license both on and off reservation land, including in urban areas, according to new reporting from MinnPost. Minnesota’s 2023 cannabis law authorized Walz […]
There must be a UK medicinal cannabis company out there who can put him on the straight and narrow! BBC A student hoping to forge a career as a lawyer has been fined £1,000 after being caught dealing cannabis. Police spotted Umair Arfan, 24, handing over the Class B drug to a man in Sunderland […]