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Feb 11
Maui Now Digs Into The Whys & Wherefores Of The Legislature Sending Cannabis Legislation Back To Committee

Header Image: Judiciary Chair David Tarnas, The best coverage i’ve yet read..   The Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives has returned to committee a bill aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana for adults aged 21 and older, a move likely to kill the measure this session in the House, disappointing advocates and sparking ongoing debate. However, […]

Feb 11
Washington Liquor & Cannabis Board Has New, “Enforcement and Education Division Director”

Welcome Lawerence “Larry” Grant, PhD as Enforcement and Education Division Director On behalf of the Board, Deputy Director Toni Hood, and myself, if is our pleasure to announce that Lawerence “Larry” Grant, PhD has been selected to serve as Director of the Enforcement and Education Division. His first day on the job will be March […]

Feb 11
Press Release: Narcotics Smuggling HSI tracks, intercepts, investigates & halts the flow of illegal narcotics into our country. We safeguard the public from this threat & keep drugs off our streets & away from our family & friends.

Here’s what we’ll be seeing a lot more of – but no real solutions i fear just a return to the past that will of course is how we got to today..   Drug overdoses have claimed more than a million lives since 1999, and accidental opioid overdose is the leading cause of death for […]

Feb 11
Philippines: Bureau of customs nets nearly P40-M cannabis sent from Canada in balikbayan boxes

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has tightened its watch on balikbayan boxes following the discovery of nearly P40 million worth of high-grade marijuana (Kush) inside two packages from Canada. Commissioner Bienvenido Rubio said on Sunday that the attempt to smuggle illegal drugs into the country was uncovered by Customs agents acting on information about the […]

Feb 11
Australia: Cannabis trafficking plot charges

Victoria A Hillside woman with alleged connections to Albanian organised crime have been charged by police for her alleged involvement in a cannabis trafficking plot. The Victorian Joint Organised Crime Taskforce (JOCTF) initially charged a Hillside man in September 2024, for his alleged involvement in the same plot to traffic $1.2 million worth of cannabis […]

Feb 11
UK: ‘Industrial scale’ cannabis farm worth £2m found in Leicester city centre

Cannabis plants worth more than £2 million have been seized from a basement drugs farm in Leicester city centre. Two men have been jailed after police discovered what they described as a large growing operation. The Illicit operation was discovered when police executed a warrant at a building in St James Street on Monday, November 11, Leicestershire […]

Feb 11
NY: Judge Shuts Down Large Cannabis Companies Lawsuit Attempt To Avoid Special Licensing Fee

Header Image: Judge Kimberly O’Connor Now they are all going to have to go back to their investors, ask for more cash, which in turn drops share price and nothing upsets managment with stock options more than a drop in shareprice. It hinders their ability to go on another skiiing holiday or upgrade that Merc […]

Feb 11
Steve DeAngelo Puts The Argument For Homegrow

  Here’s what he’s recently posted on Linked in   Bringing It All Back Home Steve DeAngelo “The Father of the Legal Cannabis Industry” –Mayor Willie Brown Jr. February 1, 2025 We created this movement to ensure safe and affordable access to all people who need cannabis– and home growing is one of the best […]

Feb 11
Vicente Put On Hemp Webinar

Hardly a day goes by without a “knowledge” announcement from Vicente in 2025. I’d suggest the strategy meetings in November & December decided this was the path forward after the democrats lost the election. They aren’t wrong in their approach. There’s going to be a lot of mis-information about cannabis and hemp in 2025 so […]

Feb 11
If diversity policy wasn’t already dead In cannabis this should kill it..

For certain sectors of the cannabis industry diversity was only ever a pr exercise for others who have tried to  build a fair, equitable and tolerant culture in their companies they’ll have to tread carefully by the looks of things   Eric Meyer  Founding Partner of  Pierson Ferdinand LLP has just posted the following to […]