A man has admitted cultivating cannabis after 15 plants were found at his Ballasalla home. 70 year old Martin Critchley of Hawthorne Grove appeared before Deputy High Bailiff Rachael Braidwood at Douglas Courthouse. The court heard police found 1.9 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and 125 grammes of cannabis during a raid on his address on […]

Papa & Barkley, a well-known cannabis wellness brand in California, has merged into Mammoth Distribution, one of the state’s leading distributors. The companies announced the merger Wednesday in a joint press release. This marks a significant consolidation within California’s cannabis industry, promising a focus on quality, sustainability and expanded national reach. Company Leaders Highlight Merger Benefits Nik Patel, CEO […]

Ruzhdi Bulku, 37, Mario Hasmuca, 28, and Adelajd Osmanaj, 26, appeared at the High Court in Glasgow today (Wednesday, September 11) when sentence was deferred for reports. The trio fled the McGowan House premises when police officers set off external motion cameras during a raid on December 15 last year. They were finally snared on […]

Source: Marine Link The U.S. Coast Guard worked alongside international partners to seize tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine from drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea. The Coast Guard said its cutter Diligence offloaded more than 4,125 pounds of cocaine, worth an assessed street value of approximately $54 million, in Port Everglades, Fla. […]

Last year, law enforcement in 11 West African countries seized a total of 83,734.84 kg of drugs and over 31,000 drug tablets/capsules, according to a September 2024 report by the West African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (WENDU). The document, titled “West Africa’s Creeping Drug Epidemic: Soaring Addiction, Lagging Response,” provides detailed insights into drug use trends across the […]

A man jailed for being at the top of a major cocaine dealing operation in east Belfast has lost a legal battle to have his sentence reduced. The Court of Appeal rejected claims that 38-year-old Glenn Rainey received too heavy a prison term after admitting his role in a criminal network behind the wholesale supply […]