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Sep 09
Media Report Israel – IDF investigating civilians giving hashish cookies to soldiers

The Times of Israel Three soldiers who ate the donated cookies over the weekend fell ill, sought medical assistance The IDF opened an investigation on Saturday into an incident in which civilians allegedly gave cookies made with hashish to soldiers on a base in southern Israel. According to the Ynet news site, citizens came to […]

Sep 08
Editorial: Cannabis testing needs a culture change – “US state regulators are ill equipped to stop laboratory fraud”

Many analytical chemists in the US cannabis industry are fed up. After years of telling state regulators that some laboratories falsify results to please their clients, many cannabis testing laboratories that have been trying to do the right thing are going out of business. Honest labs say they are losing clients to bad actors who […]

Sep 08
Pakistan: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla …. “Everyone in the country is consuming hashish.”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla remarked on the increasing use of cannabis in Pakistan on Friday, stating, “Everyone in the country is consuming hashish.” The remarks came during a Senate Finance Committee meeting, chaired by Mandviwalla, where officials from the Ministry of Science briefed members on the Hemp Control and Regulatory Authority Bill. Mandviwalla […]

Sep 08
Lake County Sheriff’s Office Press Release: Illegal Marijuana Cultivation Pollutes Breeding Grounds for Endangered Fish, Lake County Trio Arrested

During the month of August 2024, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office conducted aerial surveillance that led to the discovery of an illegal outdoor marijuana cultivation site in the middle of a seasonal stream that drains directly into Kelsey Creek. The site was located in the 15000 block of Bottle Rock Road in Cobb, California. Subsequent […]

Sep 08
Paper – 7 September 2024: Current Status of Cannabis Legalization and Decriminalization Efforts in Nepal

Nabin Pathak,1,2 Shreya Dhungana,3 Bijaya Basyal,4 Prabhat Kumar Jha,5 Sunil Shrestha,6 Panna Thapa,7,8 Vibhu Paudyal9,10 1Drug Information Unit and Pharmacovigilance Cell, Department of Pharmacy, Hetauda Hospital, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Hetauda, Bagmati Province, Nepal; 2Department of Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Hetauda, Bagmati Province, Nepal; 3Department of Pharmacy, National Model College for Advanced Learning, Tribhuvan University, […]

Sep 08
Recreational cannabis sales begin on North Carolina tribal land

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians began selling marijuana and cannabis products to any adult 21 or over starting Saturday at its tribe-owned dispensary in North Carolina, where possession or use of the drug is otherwise illegal. A post on the Facebook page of Great Smoky Cannabis Co., located on the Eastern Band of Cherokee’s […]

Sep 08
NZ: Colombia-linked cocaine syndicate in rural Canterbury imported drugs worth millions

The NZ Herald Stiff prison sentences have been handed out to South American citizens who, while working on farms in the South Island, formed themselves into a drug-smuggling syndicate that brought millions of dollars of cocaine into New Zealand. Ric Stevens reports on the Colombian connection to rural Canterbury. Hororata is a village on the […]

Sep 08
Bermuda: The Case of the Cannabis Filled Ottoman

The Bermuda Royal Gazette A jury heard how customs officers discovered packages of cannabis hidden in a box shipped to Bermuda as the trial of two men began in court. Melvin Simmons and Kanhai Armstrong have both denied charges that they conspired to import cannabis into Bermuda and sell the controlled drug. The offences were […]