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Summary Provided By Perplexity People v. Redmond, 2024 IL 129201 is a significant Illinois Supreme Court case that addresses the issue of probable cause for vehicle searches based on the odor of cannabis. Here are the key points of the ruling: The case involved Ryan Redmond, who was stopped for speeding and having an improperly […]

Canadian cannabis operator Canopy Growth Corp. made an early payment to reduce a loan term by $100 million (roughly 138.5 million Canadian dollars). Cannabis operator Canopy Growth reduces loan term by $100 million is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs

The Democrat says she will end cannabis prohibition and seek to help Black men profit from the industry if elected Kamala Harris announced on Monday that if elected president, she would… The post Kamala Harris promises full marijuana legalization – is that a gamechanger? appeared first on Cannabis Business Executive – Cannabis and Marijuana industry news.

Land planted with coca leaf surged 10% to 253,000 hectares UNOCD presented its annual report on Colombia coca crops Colombia has once again produced cocaine at a record pace as President Gustavo Petro’s government changed the country’s strategy for fighting illegal drugs. The area of land planted with coca leaf — the raw material for cocaine — […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Around 370 pounds of cocaine were seized by police on the east side of the state, according to law enforcement. Police found the drugs inside a semi-truck in Port Huron Tuesday evening, the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post. Law enforcement had pulled over the semi-truck […]

Delhi & Gujarat police seized 518 kg of cocaine in a raid on the company Sunday. A series of raids have been conducted in October based on intelligence inputs & probe over past 3 months. Read Mrinalini Dhyani’s report. Read here (paywall) https://theprint.in/best-of-theprint-icymi/gujarat-firm-at-heart-of-%E2%82%B913000-cr-drug-bust-over-1200-kg-of-cocaine-seized-to-date/2320243/

The AFP is calling for the public’s assistance after more than 30kg of cocaine was located in a refrigerated container at Port Botany. The consignment was examined by Australian Border Force (ABF) officers on Thursday, 17 October 2024, after they identified anomalies when they x-rayed a shipping container that had arrived from Italy. A forensic […]

A union representing cannabis retail workers in British Columbia says it has secured key contract wins for workers at a Vancouver cannabis store. The BC Budtenders Union, which represents workers at several cannabis stores in BC, first served strike notice at a Canna Cabana in Vancouver on October 8 following a vote in favour of a strike […]

Editor’s note: Images of the man’s arrest from 2022 are available on Hightail. A Brazilian national who spent 10 years evading an arrest warrant was this week (16 October, 2024) sentenced by a Queensland court to eight years’ imprisonment for his role in a 2012 cocaine smuggling conspiracy. The man, now 42, was convicted this week after […]

Evidence suggests that Edin ‘Tito’ Gacanin, who is accused of being one of the world’s most prolific drug traffickers and the head of an organised crime cartel, has been operating via Durban. This ties South Africa to a global ‘supercartel’ that is thought to have its headquarters in Dubai. In 12 January 2021, a container […]