Articles tagged with "raids"
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Judge Dismisses Felony Charges in Detroit Cultivation Case
Marjorie Steele - Published on August 3, 2018Read moreAmid legal confusion and assertions of racial prejudice, a judge dismissed charges against cannabis employees whose cultivation facility was raided in May.
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Denver Shuts Down 26 Legal Cannabis Businesses, Makes Arrests
The Associated Press - Published on December 14, 2017Read moreThe city’s order shuttered 26 retail stores and other marijuana growing facilities operating under the name Sweet Leaf. Police investigation focused on eight locations licensed by the company.
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California Senior Citizens Teach Garden-Wrecking Cops a Lesson
Peter Hecht - Published on October 26, 2017Read moreHow the ‘Lake County Ten’ fought back (and won) after county deputies ransacked their backyard cannabis gardens.
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California Auditor Accuses Sheriff of Misusing Cannabis Fees to Fund Raids
The Associated Press - Published on August 10, 2017Read moreThe Calaveras County auditor says the sheriff improperly spent some of the $1 million his office made from legal cannabis fees to go after illegal operators.
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California Authorities Seize 27,000 Cannabis Plants in 4-Day Calaveras Raid
The Associated Press - Published on August 4, 2017Read moreThe crackdown on more than a dozen farms occurred in different parts of Calaveras County, southeast of Sacramento in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Cities Swap SWAT-Style Dispensary Raids for Softer Approach
Chase Scheinbaum - Published on March 30, 2017Read moreIncreasingly, authorities who turn up at cannabis raids are more likely to be armed with clipboards than submachine guns. What changed?
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The Cannabis Culture Raids: Here’s What We Know at Day’s End
Richard Sharp - Published on March 9, 2017Read moreThe dust is settling after police raids on Marc and Jodie Emery’s dispensaries across Canada today in Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton.
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Canadian Dispensaries: Why Vancouver Allows Them but Toronto Doesn’t
Randi Druzin - Published on February 21, 2017Read moreOne city gives dispensary owners licenses. The other arrests them. What’s up with that?
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Trump and Sessions Seem Focused on Cartels, Not Cannabis
Lisa Rough - Published on February 14, 2017Read moreRumors are flying about whether the Trump administration will crack down on cannabis, but what’s the true story?
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‘Nub-Kicking’ Cops No Longer Harassing Southern California Dispensaries
Ben Adlin - Published on July 15, 2016Read moreThree police officers who were caught ridiculing an amputee and noshing snacks during a dispensary raid are no longer working for the Santa Ana Police Department.
