Law Enforcement

Former CannTrust officials have been charged for making efforts to conceal the illegal growing of cannabis at CannTrust facilities over a 10-month period—the investigation ultimately forced the company to destroy $65 million worth of inventory.

The consultants were each sentenced to over a year in prison after being convicted of using shell companies and fake websites to disguise cannabis sales from 2016 to 2019.

Louisiana’s decriminalization measure makes the possession of up to 14 grams of cannabis flower a misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine with no possibility for jail time.

The dismissal of the more than 6,000 cases comes two months after lawmakers legalized cannabis for adult use in New York.

A South Dakota legislative rules review committee ruled that the state can prohibit the use of medical cannabis by police officers and 911 dispatchers.

Maryland police can no longer stop and search people based on perceived cannabis odors following a Maryland appeals court ruling.

Philadelphia’s City Council has banned pre-employment drug screenings for cannabis by most businesses in the city.

A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a 2018 cannabis warehouse robbery that resulted in the theft of nearly $650,000 in cash and over 1,000 pounds of cannabis.

An investigation into whether California cannabis dispensaries sell to underage customers found 100% of the shops investigated to be fully compliant with age-verification ID checks.

With cannabis now legal for adult use throughout New York, the NYPD told officers they can no longer arrest people for public cannabis consumption.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law a bill that requires parental notification by law enforcement whenever minors are caught illegally possessing cannabis.

John McLeod is the co-founder of Cloud Cannabis Co., a Michigan cannabis retailer with dispensaries in Ann Arbor, Muskegon, and Traverse City.

Washington state law enforcement agencies are releasing responses including guidance and pushback to the state’s Supreme Court ruling last week that effectively decriminalized all drug possession.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal has instructed prosecutors to dismiss any pending cannabis-related charges that would no longer be illegal under the state’s new legalization law.

New Jersey police have issued over 6,000 arrests for simple cannabis possession since voters overwhelmingly approved legalization reforms last November.

Black people in Montana are 9.6 times more likely to be arrested for cannabis possession than their white counterparts — it is the country’s biggest racial disparity for cannabis arrests. Colorado, at 1.5 times more likely, has the lowest racial disparity among cannabis arrests.

A man who filmed himself smoking a joint during the infamous US Capitol siege on January 6 has been arrested by the FBI.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to end its use of private prisons.

New Zealand law enforcement officials have ended the country’s annual cannabis eradication operation, choosing instead to focus on combating “more harmful substances such as methamphetamine.”

Protestors in Pensacola, Florida rallied last weekend in support of the release of Nedal Abdel Mohammad, a local smoke shop owner who was arrested in 2019 after authorities mistook a legal CBD shipment for cannabis.

The DEA published a new rule on Thursday that will allow researchers to apply to cultivate cannabis for research purposes.

A former civilian employee for the U.S. Marine Corps was sentenced to four years and four months in prison in Japan after he was arrested last year for illegal cannabis sales.

A New York plant nursery is suing the Washington County Sheriff after deputies destroyed more than 250 of the group’s licensed hemp research plants.

Two police officers in South Dakota have filed a lawsuit claiming the state’s voter-approved cannabis legalization initiative violates the state constitution.