#illegal marijuana

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ICE, DEA arrested 76 immigrants in California desert. What happened to them?

Two U.S. citizens were also arrested June 18 in what the DEA called "a vast investigation" into illegal marijuana grows. Their fate is uncle

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NYC’s latest crackdown on illegal weed shops is finally shutting them down

Thousands of marijuana shops boldly opened without a license in New York City after the state legalized recreational use of the drug, but after more than a year of lax enforcement, new state rules are finally allowing officials to padlock their doors. New York City’s sheriff’s office says it has shuttered around 700 illegal stores since new state regulations passed in April. The unsanctioned…

NYC’s latest crackdown on illegal weed shops is finally shutting them down

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Marijuana would remain illegal in Alabama despite federal change: ‘Even more confusion’

If the federal government moves forward with a plan to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, some worry that it will cause further confusion about what’s legal and not legal in states like Alabama. While nearly half of states now allow recreational marijuana, Alabama is not one of them. And while Alabama legalized medical marijuana in 2021, efforts to get the program up and running have…

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Budget deal ends marijuana potency tax and targets illegal shops in New York

The state budget that’s expected to be adopted in the coming days calls for repealing the potency tax on marijuana products as well as new regulations intended to give local municipalities, including New York City, the ability to more easily inspect and shut down unlicensed cannabis stores. The enforcement actions, which include provisions to seize illicit marijuana products, will be limited to…

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Grown in Oklahoma, Smoked in New York: Illicit Marijuana’s Legal Roots

In the dead of night last April, state drug agents in Oklahoma intercepted an 18-wheeler rumbling east toward the Arkansas border smuggling 7,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in security camera boxes. The weed was from licensed farms in Oklahoma, according to the State Bureau of Narcotics. But the driver was heading to New York, where his cargo could fetch millions of dollars among legacy street…

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Oklahoma's medical marijuana agency 'ready to really get going'

Lawyers for the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority took a seat at one of two tables before a judge as the morning sun splashed through the hexagon-shape windows of a first-floor makeshift courtroom inside the state agency’s building near the state Capitol. The second table was empty, reserved for the owners of a Muskogee marijuana dispensary that recently had been shut down by the state agency…

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The growing Chinese investment in illegal American weed

A few days before Christmas, a joint law enforcement task force found nearly 9,000 pounds of cannabis worth almost $15 million during a raid in a suburban neighborhood in Antioch, Calif. The California Department of Cannabis Control believes that the four houses searched in the bedroom community 45 minutes outside San Francisco were linked to China. Mexican cartels have a long history of…

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Awash in illegal marijuana, Oregon looks at toughening laws

Awash in illegal marijuana, Oregon looks at toughening laws

In 2014, Oregon voters approved a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana after being told it would eliminate problems caused by “uncontrolled manufacture” of the drug. Illegal production of marijuana has instead exploded. Oregon lawmakers, who have heard complaints from police, legal growers and others, are now looking at toughening laws against the outlaw growers. Oregon, one of the…

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