December, 2022

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Thailand – Media Report: Bangkok Cracks Down on Cannabis Vendors, 6 Arrested

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Police arrested six people for allegedly selling weed (cannabis) and allowing customers to light-up inside shops on Bangkok’s Khao San Road without permission.

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Media Report: Sweden – First Blood: Luleå Court Grants Cert to Lars Olofsson to Proceed in Juicy Fields Suit Against Mark Zuckerberg

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If this case has legs then many of the others he hopes to bring will too. Interesting times ahead. Cannabis 101 reports In major and speedy victory, the request to proceed with a private criminal prosecution of the Meta CEO in Sweden has been granted within 36 hours of the filing. The timing of the […].

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India: Uttarakhand will soon launch its hemp policy

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If media reports are to go by, the initial draft of the hemp policy is ready and has been sent to the legal department. Uttarakhand can come out with its hemp policy soon. The draft will be soon sent to the state cabinet for approval. The final policy will be launched in 2023. The policy […].

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French court overturns government ban on sale of CBD flowers

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Various news media are reporting the following today. Yahoo writes France’s Council of State has definitively lifted the ban on the sale of hemp flower and leaf loaded with cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychotropic molecule of cannabis, overruling a government decision to ban it at the end of 2021.

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Swedish Lawyer Lars Olofsson Initiates Action Against Zuckeberg / Meta Who He Says Were Complicit In Juicy Fields Scam

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Next on his list, he says, are… regulators, media and attorneys Hemp Today report A lawsuit against Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg for alleged complicity in a cannabis investment scam may proceed, a court in Sweden has ruled.

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1st Circuit Upholds Conviction of Former Mayor in Cannabis Biz Bribery Case

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Law Street Media reports The First Circuit affirmed the Massachusetts District Court’s ruling finding the former mayor of a Massachusetts town, Jasiel Correia, guilty of tax fraud, wire fraud, and corruption.

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Thailand’s Public Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, said Saturday he believes the smoking of cannabis by young boys in Pattaya was stage-managed to discredit the Bhumjaithai Party and its policy to decriminalise cannabis and hemp.

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Responding to an image, widely shared on social media, of a few young boys smoking weed from a bamboo pipe at the Pattaya fish market on Friday, Anutin said he questions how a 9-year-old boy could afford to buy the pipe and the weed, believing that the scene was stage-managed. A 10-year-old boy was returned […].

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