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A consignment of 225 kilogram of hashish (cannabis) worth ₹55 lakh was recovered from a truck at Pari Chowk in Greater Noida early Friday. Police arrested four men, including a graduate from Delhi University, in connection with the haul. The cannabis was concealed in small packets inside the...

A disused council leisure center in Newport was bought and turned into a cannabis farm worth up to £1.6m. Mohammed Nawaz allowed drug dealers to use buildings he owned across Britain, Cardiff Crown Court heard. One was Underwood Leisure Centre which he leased to Abdul Manuf, 46. Nawaz...

At a candidate forum in Sandy on Thursday, the six law enforcement officers in the race to become the next Salt Lake County sheriff said they support the legalization of medical marijuana, but that Utah might not be ready for recreational use of the drug. Activists launched an effort in June...

A large cannabis farm has been sniffed out in the upstairs of a Sunderland social club . The haul was uncovered by officers who were responding to a call out on a separate issue. Police were called to the Ivy Leaf Club, on Suffolk Street, Hendon, in Sunderland at 6.46pm on Sunday, July...

Police have busted yet another two cannabis-growing houses in recent days in Perth, seizing close to 500 plants in the process. The recent drug houses are the latest in a long line of similar drug busts across Perth in the past year, involving homes, mostly rental properties, being converted...

A New York man was arrested at the Holland Tunnel Monday night when police found nine bags of marijuana in his car, authorities said. Patrick Niedt, 29, was stopped at the Jersey City toll plaza at about 8:30 p.m. after an officer spotted a dangling license plate on his 2013 Acura, Port...

A man has been warned by police after he was found with cannabis in his car in Hertford. Police stopped a vehicle in Parliament Square, Hertford, at 2.20pm on Thursday (July 28) because they believed there was cannabis inside the vehicle. A police spokesman said: "Officers stopped a...

A cannabis factory was discovered at a home in Dartford last night and police have arrested a man on suspicion of cultivating the drug. Police were called out to Brandon Road, and at least three police vehicles and a forensics van were spotted in the road, off East Hill at about 7pm. A...

Sacramento police detectives serving a search warrant at a Land Park home Tuesday made a potentially explosive discovery — a "very sophisticated" hash oil lab, authorities said. Such illegal operations typically involve using butane to extract hash oil from marijuana plants and create a...

Berkeley City Council will convene at its regular meeting this Tuesday to consider a number of proposals including short-term police reform, commercial cannabis regulation and discrimination in rental housing based on source of income. Recently, the Berkeley Police Department released a...

Vancouver Assistant Police Chief Mike Lester once used to enforce the laws against marijuana, but now his paycheck is partially funded by it. "It's a little ironic at times," Lester said. "That's just the way it is." All the money Vancouver receives from marijuana tax goes to police. That...

Forks Township police early Friday morning raided a marijuana grow house just outside the township park and took four people in custody, Chief Greg Dorney reports. It wasn't immediately clear who was renting the home and who was just there. Dorney did not immediately identify the suspects...

Police departments across the state are coming to grips with how to deal with people caught possessing marijuana after New Hampshire became the 22nd state to decriminalize the drug on Tuesday. Police departments throughout the Granite State have until Sept. 18, less than two months, to...

He went into the hospital feeling under the weather. But he's probably feeling even sicker now after Lakewood police confiscated a trash bag he was carrying that was full of marijuana. And he might face criminal charges for it. A 49- to 50-year-old transient went to a free-standing...

Albanian police say they have seized at least 15 metric tons (16.5 tons) of marijuana hidden in a southwestern village. Police spokesman Gentian Mullai says that some 150 officers had found the drugs Friday in three houses in Llakatund, 150 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of the capital...

Police Scotland issued nearly 6,000 warnings for cannabis possession as an alternative to prosecution in the first year of a controversial new scheme. Figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday show officers handed out a total of 5,827 Recorded Police Warnings (RPWs) in 2016/17, equivalent to...

Police in the French city of Lyon were left red faced after destroying a 400 square meter art installation that they mistook for an illegal cannabis plantation. The wanton destruction took place on June 26th when officers were patrolling along the Cours de Charlemagne in the center of the...

A man growing cannabis to treat his wife's chronic pain has been told to deal with his partner's condition "without breaking the law". Judge Richard Russell said he would not be drawn into the cannabis debate in New Zealand and had to apply the law as it stood. "I'm not going to be...

The legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado had at least one unanticipated effect on the streets: a sharp decline in the number of traffic stops resulting in searches by state police, a new analysis shows. The drop means fewer interactions between police and drivers...

Traffic searches by highway patrols in Colorado and Washington dropped by nearly half after the two states legalized marijuana in 2012. That also reduced the racial disparities in the stops, according to a new analysis of police data, but not by much. Blacks and Hispanics are still searched at...