Cannabis Seizures

California's Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce (UCETF) seized more than $312 million worth of illegal marijuana during its first calendar year of operations, a newly released report reveals.  "California is effectively decreasing the illegal cannabis market by leveraging the strengths and...

This article was initially published by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and appears here with permission. Federal law enforcement agents and their partners seized nearly 5.7 million cultivated marijuana plants in 2022, according to annual data ...

Journalists Jailed In Nigeria Nigerian journalists Gidado Yushau and Alfred Olufemi — known for exposing cannabis use at a business linked to a politician — were put in prison after being convicted of conspiracy and defamation. The Committee to Protect Journalists and Civil Society...

June's illegal drug seizures at international boundaries, and highway checkpoints, have spiked 25% compared to May, according to a report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Compared to the previous year, average daily seizures of marijuana, cocaine and heroin have...

Three-quarters of U.S. Border Patrol drug seizures were exclusively for marijuana, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published in early June. The analysis of Border Patrol data, from 2016 through 2020, showed that officers pulled in roughly 35,700...

The Justice Department has agreed to return more than $1 million that California sheriff's deputies stole from Empyreal Logistics, an armored-car company that serves state-licensed marijuana businesses, reported reason.com The decision overruled San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus'...

Investigators from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department – Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET), along with San Bernardino Sheriff’s deputies from several different patrol stations, completed week 26 of Operation Hammer Strike with the arrest of 30 suspects between...

Sheriff’s Department officials revealed the recent eradication of hundreds of marijuana greenhouses in San Bernardino County (SBC), reported Daily Press. The outdoor marijuana cultivations were shuttered during Operation Hammer Strike Week 22, a seven-day period, which ended Sunday, the SBC...

Medical journal The Lancet published an article Wednesday that could mold the future of cannabis-derived therapeutics. The piece in question featured results from GW Pharmaceuticals PLC- ADR (NASDAQ: GWPH) and Greenwich Biosciences’ Phase 3 study of Epidiolex — an oral cannabidiol...