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Five people have been sentenced over a £10m cannabis operation involving more than 6,000 plants across three sites. Police uncovered plants at a rented Northamptonshire warehouse in October 2014, before finding more plants on a Lincolnshire industrial estate and at a property in Northampton...

Everything about Elevate Medical Pharmacy looked like a legitimate marijuana dispensary. A large sign out front displayed the business' name. A neon "Open" sign shone bright in the window. Inside, it looked like a typical pot shop: OG Kush, Sour Diesel and other popular marijuana strains...

A salesman, it seems, left his briefcase at The Avant apartment community in Pembroke Pines Thursday. Pembroke Pines police have the briefcase and invite the owner to claim it -- all of it. The briefcase and the 10.75 pounds of marijuana inside, carefully packed into seven sealed packages...

An unlicensed marijuana dispensary in Chula Vista was robbed by two men Wednesday night who took marijuana, cash and a security guard’s gun, police said. A security guard at the Green Lady dispensary told police that two men entered the business around 8:45 p.m. and pointed a gun at him before...

Police spent three days searching for marijuana plants around Saratoga County last week, seizing 450 plants around the county. The Saratogas County Sheriff's Office was assisted by a State Police helicopter and state forest rangers as they pulled up mature plants found to be growing outside...

Four men were rescued from England's highest mountain after "becoming incapable of walking due to cannabis use", police have said. Cumbria police were called at about 6.30pm on Saturday after the group ran into difficulty on Scafell Pike, a 978-metre (3,210ft) peak in the Lake District...

Whenever society changes, there's bound to be confusion and inconvenience along the way. When women and blacks became eligible to vote, there was initial disruption at the polls as both the newly eligible voters and election workers struggled with registrations, etc. – and in some cases, of...

State police have uncovered a massive marijuana growing operation -- approximately $30,000 worth of pot, according to troopers -- from an island on the Susquehanna River in Owego. The Underwater Recovery Team assisted the Community Narcotics Enforcement Team, better known as C-NET, with the...

A marijuana delivery service that went by the name "Pretty Dank" was disrupted Thursday after San Diego police arrested its owner and seized the company's assets. Three employees were also taken into custody after narcotics detectives served a warrant at a College Area home on Pembroke Drive...

A 63-year-old man and his adult son were caught Thursday growing 29 marijuana plants in their Manchester backyard, authorities said. After getting a tip, cops obtained a search warrant and found the plants during an early-morning raid of the home on Weldon Road in the Holly Oaks section of...

Citrus Heights police seized approximately 300 marijuana plants from what was described as a sophisticated indoor growing operation in a residential neighborhood. Detectives with the department's special investigations unit served a search warrant in the 8000 block of Dicus Court about 9:45...

Two Hampton Township residents are facing felonies for allegedly violating the state's medical marijuana laws more than a year ago. The evening of July 26, 2016, Hampton Township police and Essexville Public Safety officers executed a search warrant at 127 E. Nebobish Road, the residence of...

The Jasper Police Department in Missouri thought they made a huge bust. The department seized 290 plants that they claimed were marijuana. That could produce up to nearly 29,000 grams of marijuana, which would be worth around $100,000. The Jasper Police Department was so proud of their...

Saturday marked the first day that marijuana was decriminalized in New Hampshire. Possession of small amounts of the drug – three-quarters of an ounce or less – is now punishable only as a violation and fines of up to $300 for initial offenses. Previously, a first-time offense for...

Police have arrested a man accused of running a large marijuana growing operation in Huntersville. Huntersville police officers said they seized 94 actively growing marijuana plants, with some more than 6 feet tall, approximately 50 pounds of marijuana and 17 guns, including 13 handguns and...

It's a lost and found story worthy of Cheech and Chong after dopey dope fiends let their stash find its way to police. Wellington District Police posted a picture of the half-kilo of primo buds in a tongue-in-cheek appeal to its owners on its Facebook page on Sunday night replete with the...

Police uncovered a sophisticated cannabis factory after a raid on a residential address - but nobody was at home. Officers suspect the property, in the Southchurch area of Southend, was being used solely for the production of the class B drug. They found 87 plants being grown in four...

A mid-morning raid by police uncovered a cannabis factory in Cambridgeshire with drugs valued at £250,000 after a tip-off. The latest raid of a cannabis factory comes as police target drugs lords in a bid to smash associated crime including human trafficking and modern-day slavery...

Two Davenport women were arrested Thursday night after police say they found more than an pound-and-a-half of high-grade marijuana in their home. Jo Ann Foley, 66, and Heather Jo Finn, 34, face charges of controlled substance violation and failure to affix drug stamp tax. The charges are a...

Local police on New Zealand's South Island are calling on a primary school to be on the lookout for illegal cannabis plantations. Havelock School in the picturesque Marlborough Sounds has run a police appeal in its latest newsletter - just below the cross-country race results - urging teachers...