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Upcoming Webinar: Navigating Marijuana Law for Employers: Compliance, Testing, and Policy Essentials
Navigating Marijuana Law for Employers: Compliance, Testing, and Policy Essentials
Thursday, December 19th, Seyfarth attorneys Jennifer Mora and Fritz Smith will present a webinar Navigating Marijuana Law for Employers: Compliance, Testing, and Policy Essentials.
Thursday, December 19, 20241:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.…
Italy: Young Man Arrested After Attempting to Hide Drugs with Grandmother’s Help
In Italy where else! While he was in the police station because he was stopped with drugs, under the pretense of wanting to inform his trusted lawyer, he instead messaged his grandmother asking her to make the stuffed toy containing drugs disappear. It was during a routine check that a 22-year-old from Sant’Arpino, already known…
Ukrainian man sold military drones to fly £16k of hashish from Morocco to Spain
‘We have never seen any drones … which can cross the Strait of Gibraltar, drop the drugs, then go back to Morocco,’ a police source says IN MADRID – A Ukrainian who allegedly used “narco drones” to fly hashish from Morocco to Spain learnt how to make them during military service in the war against Russia, Spanish police told The i Paper. The unnamed…
Two arrested as part of investigation into $30M cannabis crop
Published: Friday 6 December 2024 at 11:32 am Major Drug Squad detectives yesterday arrested two men as part of their investigation into the cultivation of large commercial quantities of cannabis by a Vietnamese organised crime syndicate. With assistance from the VIPER Taskforce as well as the Springvale, Croydon, Box Hill and Morwell Divisional Response Units,…
Michigan Marijuana Dispensary Stuck with $520,000 Tax Bill
Bloomberg A Michigan cannabis dispensary owes nearly $520,000 in corporate income taxes and interest after being denied a deduction available only to businesses holding a particular type of license, a state tax tribunal said in an order released Friday. The Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act provides deductions to recreational cannabis vendors. The Medical…
Cheeba launches South Africa’s first accredited Higher Education Cannabis course
MSN.com n a landmark achievement for South Africa’s Cannabis industry, Cheeba Cannabis & Hemp Academy has secured accreditation from the Council on Higher Education (CHE) for its Higher Certificate in Cannabis Production & Management. This qualification marks the first of its kind in Africa and positions Cheeba as a leader in the fast-growing Cannabis and hemp sector.…
‘Trump’s gonna pardon me’: Jan. 6 rioter who smoked cannabis in the Capitol defiantly tells off judge at his sentencing
As they say — “This is why we can’t have nice things” because of this flipside of the coin .. A Jan. 6 rioter from New York and one-time candidate for the House seat that George Santos previously held is going to prison. Philip Sean Grillo, 49, was sentenced on Friday to a year in prison, online…
Brazil: Parliamentary Front of Medicinal Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Announce Funded Cannabis Projects
The Parliamentary Front of Medicinal Cannabis and Industrial Hemp held the last meeting of 2024 in the Plenary Dom Pedro I, in the Legislative Assembly of Sao Paulo (Alesp). On the occasion, the eight winning projects of the 2nd edict of parliamentary amendments, defined by the Deliberative Council of the Front, were announced. Sechat State…
The Week in Weed: December 6, 2024
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week looks a lot like our last post – updates on the DEA re-scheduling process and on the Nebraska ballot initiative situation. Added into that mix, we have info on a 2026 ballot initiative in…