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Washington state police implicate Chinese nationals in marijuana bust

Police in western Washington state have made arrests in an investigation into what the Tacoma Police Department described as “a major illegal marijuana grow operation by Chinese nationals.”
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NYC Pushes Unlicensed Cannabis Enforcement to Landlords

NYC Pushes Unlicensed Cannabis Enforcement to Landlords
YIKES, with failing results, NYC looks at pushing unlicensed cannabis enforcement to landlords.
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How Prohibitionist Ideology Has Wrecked The Republican Party And Undermined Democracy

How Prohibitionist Ideology Has Wrecked The Republican Party And Undermined Democracy
The Republican Party is badly split, but it did not start with Donald Trump. However, when ideology trumps reality, the result is stupidity. 
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DEA’s Latest Policy Change Another Burden on Cannabis Research

CANNABIS CULTURE –  Dr. John Streicher of the University of Arizona says the DEA’s new regulations offer no help to researchers — and he’s not the only one. “From my point of view it makes no difference at all,” Streicher says under the new rules he w…

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Toronto spent over $300,000 to block illicit dispensaries with concrete

It cost the city more than $300,000 to repeatedly seal up CAFE and other illicit Toronto dispensaries, some of which continue to operate.
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US border reports increased cannabis seizures in first year of legalization

There’s been a nearly 75% increase in US-bound cannabis seizures between November 2018 and October 2019, the first year of Canadian cannabis legalization.
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FBI: Cannabis arrests on the rise for 3rd year running

Law enforcement made an estimated 663,367 cannabis-related arrests in 2018, according to FBI data released this week, up from an estimated 659,700 the previous year. Most were for simple possession.
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