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Cannabis tax rates, emergency shelter and mid-town area plan: city council updates
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – On Tuesday, the South Lake Tahoe city council met with a particularly long agenda to make decisions on the cannabis tax rate, emergency shelter and warm room and the Mid-Town area plan, among other items, some of which...

Battle Creek dispensary sold marijuana to out-of-state dealer, regulators say
Michigan regulators are cracking down on a Battle Creek dispensary for its role in allegedly selling large quantities of marijuana to out-of-state dealers. The Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency filed a formal complaint Wednesday against 846...

Court docs allege Johnson County coroner provided alcohol, offered cannabis gummies to teen
JOHNSON COUNTY — Johnson County Coroner Michael Dean Pruitt is facing allegations that he provided alcohol and offered cannabis gummies to a teenage girl, according to court documents filed in Johnson Superior Court. The documents, filed as part...

Huge quantities of marijuana seized at Muscat airport
The Directorate General for Combating Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, in cooperation with the Customs Department of Muscat International Airport, arrested an Asian air traveler upon his arrival at the airport for possessing nine kilograms of...

Weed Shop Owners Can Exhale (for Now)
A brand-new Hell Gate Podcast will be dropping later today! You won't want to miss it. Listen and subscribe here, or wherever you get your podcasts. For months, the fate of Aaron Alexis's Bed-Stuy cannabis store has been in limbo, after the...

Vehicle Accident Uncovers 112kg Cannabis in Kano
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kano State Command, has confiscated 150 blocks and three sacks of cannabis sativa, totaling 112 kilograms, following a road traffic accident on the Zaria-Kano Road near Gadar Tamburawa. According...

Cannabis Shops of 2025: Your Ultimate Guide to Shopping Smart
Legal cannabis retail has matured quickly. Walk into a shop in 2025 and you’re as likely to see clean menus, trained staff, and batch QR codes as you are glass jars and grinders. The best experience—and safest outcomes—come from knowing how to...
Game changer: Radical reform will weed out serial objectors
Business Post subscribers can read: • How a Dublin waste water facility has become the poster child of delayed infrastructure • What reforms the government is planning to overhaul judicial review • Legal industry reaction to the planned reforms

Marijuana in the workplace: Springfield attorney talks about law related to employers
Comer, a main partner at the law firm, built his career in general defense litigation with a focus on employment law, workers’ compensation and contract disputes, and is an Ohio Supreme Court trained mediator for a wide range of legal disputes,...

Indicted Air Peace co-pilot, cabin crew: NSIB lied, we don’t drink alcohol, smoke marijuana
A co-pilot, David Bernard, and a cabin crew member, Maduneme Victory, have rejected a report of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau which claimed that they tested positive for alcohol and a hard drug. The accident investigators had tested the...

Court extends NABU detective's pre-trial detention until Oct 21
Photo: http://bank.gov.ua/ The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has remanded Ruslan Maghamedrasulov, a detective of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), in custody until October 21, 2025, Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has said from the courtroom....

Lawyers demand gun control after drive-by killing of Kyalo Mbobu
Lawyers in Nairobi join Purple Ribbon March against the brutal killing of Advocate Kyalo Mbobu. [Pkemoi Ng'enoh, Standard] Lawyers across the country have staged peaceful protests over the killing of Advocate Mathew Kyalo Mbobu, who was gunned...

Dutch Legal Cannabis Farm Faces Closure Over Odor Complaints: A Deep Dive into the Controversy
In a significant development in the Netherlands’ burgeoning legal cannabis industry, a massive cannabis farm located west of Rotterdam has been ordered to address persistent odor issues or face severe consequences, including potential closure. The...

Air Peace crew member rejects drug test result, threatens NSIB with lawsuit
An Air Peace cabin crew member, Victory Maduneme, has rejected a drug test result, describing as false and damaging to her career, accusing the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) of a smear campaign. Maduneme, who linked the test to the...

Hemp coalition wants to treat MO marijuana, hemp products like alcohol
A coalition of Missouri hemp businesses has filed petitions to repeal the state's 2022 recreational marijuana amendment. The proposed initiatives would regulate marijuana and intoxicating hemp products similarly to alcohol and tobacco. Supporters...

DOJ Targets Biden Cannabis Rules While GOP Committee Seeks To Block Rescheduling
WASHINGTON, DC - Adam Eidinger along with other DC marijuana advocates gathered on the east side of the US Capitol plaza grounds to urge Congressional lawmakers to lower the restrictions on marijuana use in the District of Columbia, and made a...

GOP plan on pesticides faces revolt from MAHA moms
For years, pesticide manufacturer Bayer has battled thousands of lawsuits claiming that its weed killer Roundup causes cancer in people who use it frequently. Now, the Republican-controlled Congress could deliver the company a crucial victory. A...

Housing a killer: Court orders Hamilton hospital to help psychiatric patient find a home
Four hours after he was released from hospital, Joey Tobin stabbed his father to death. Now, 23 years later, the care Joey gets for his schizophrenia from a different hospital is under scrutiny. The Court of Appeal for Ontario recently ordered St....

Law enforcement/stores prepare for new THC rules
Posted/updated on: September 12, 2025 at 4:35 am TYLER – Governor Greg Abbott’s recently signed executive order GA 56 does not change their zero-tolerance policy regarding illegal substances. According to our news partner KETK, the new order makes...

Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas medical marijuana sales on track to surpass 2023 record
Arkansans spent $10 million more on medical marijuana so far this year than during the first eight months of 2024, putting the state on track to exceed a record set two years ago, according to the state finance department. From January through...