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Illegal marijuana cultivation operations can cause harm to our environments and fish and wildlife.  In addition, they compete on an illegal level with licensed cannabis operations that abide by State rules and regulations and pay taxes.  Investigating these illegal operations can be dangerous for those serving search warrants and we are grateful no one was […]

The Department of Cannabis Control’s Cannabis Advisory Committee (CAC) will meet on Thursday, September 19, 2024. The CAC is established in statute to advise the Department on the development of standards, best practices, and regulations that protect public health and safety and advance a safer, sustainable, equitable, and well-regulated cannabis market. The Department will welcome several […]

The labs gave no reasons for withdrawing the complaints, but promised to file again soon. A pair of marijuana testing labs in California dropped their initial lawsuit against 13 competitors, which alleged that the cohort fabricated cannabis product test results – but the CEO of one of the labs has pledged the fight isn’t over. “We stand […]

Here’s one of the lawsuits served   Read details in MM Nebraska Attorney General Announces Crackdown On Illegal THC Product Sales  

Police in Guinea-Bissau seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, Bissau, over the weekend, judicial police said Monday. The agents confiscated 78 bales of drugs that were smuggled in on a Gulfstream IV aircraft during a raid on Saturday afternoon at Bissau’s Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, […]

A Thessaloniki court has handed five defendants prison sentences ranging from 8 to 15 years for their role in the smuggling of 585 kilograms of cocaine from Latin America. The mammoth drug bust in September 2023 was the largest ever to have taken place in the northern port city. The court convicted a 52-year-old man, […]

The BBC 6 September 2024 Two men who smuggled 350kg of cocaine across the English Channel have been jailed. Stephen Lloyd-Jones and Tiamo Zanaj were caught having returned to Sovereign Harbour in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on a boat used to collect their illicit haul from a cargo ship. Despite losing more than half their haul […]

A former American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) aircraft mechanic was sentenced on Friday to nine years in prison after being convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine hidden beneath the cockpit of a flight to New York from Jamaica. Paul Belloisi, 56, of Smithtown, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dora Irizarry in Brooklyn, after being […]

Header Image: Reggie Gaudino, Ph.D. Director Cannabis Research Institute   Nearly a year and a half after it was announced, the Cannabis Research Institute is getting operations underway in Chicago, with the goal of studying, among other things, how marijuana could help or harm people. The institute’s leader hopes to break new ground in finding […]

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