All news on the topic: cannabis

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Bella Culley’s tearful mother visits prison as family races to gather £100,000 fine
Pregnant drugs mule suspect Bella Culley’s distraught mother was seen visiting her daughter in Georgian prison today as lawyers say she may have to find £100,000 to free her.
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Pregnant Brit Bella Culley may be released from Georgian prison after paying fine
The pregnant British teenager Bella Culley has reportedly been informed she will be released from the Georgian prison where she is being held on drug-smuggling charges if she pays a substantial fine.
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Police seize £522,000 worth of cannabis in Motherwell: two men arrested
Two men have been charged after a cannabis farm worth around £522,000 was seized by police in Motherwell.
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British teen jailed for smuggling 14kg of cannabis from Thailand
A British teenager who was caught at Heathrow Airport with a large stash of cannabis smuggled into Britain from Thailand has been jailed.
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Prison worker jailed after plot to smuggle cannabis, steroids, and phones into HMP Onley
A prison officer who intended to exploit her position to smuggle items such as mobile phones and illegal drugs into the jail has been imprisoned.
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British woman arrested in Mauritius for trying to smuggle cannabis in her six‑year‑old son’s suitcase
A British mother-of-two has been arrested in Mauritius after she was accused of trying to smuggle cannabis inside her six-year-old son’s suitcase.
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Under cover of sertanejo: Brazilian singer suspected of running drug cartel
Police are investigating whether an aspiring sertanejo singer secretly assisted in managing her brother’s drug operation using a false identity.
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New rules: Foreigners apprehended for smuggling cannabis via Heathrow deported at once
Heathrow airport staff will be deporting foreigners caught smuggling cannabis, according to new stricter rules
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Whole town in Turkey unintentionally gets "high" after drug disposal operation
25,000 residents of the eastern Turkish city of Lice were unintentionally left “high” after authorities burned 20 tons of confiscated cannabis.
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A German woman inherited a house with a cannabis plantation, inside of which there were 1,200 plants
In Bad Harzburg, a woman inherited a house where she discovered 1200 cannabis plants and equipment for cultivating them. The police confiscated everything and arrested two suspects.
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Study finds pesticides and harmful bacteria in cannabis sold in Netherlands
‘Baseline’ contamination study to inform Netherlands trial in which shops will sell drug produced by licensed growers
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£50k Birmingham cannabis farm discovered during burglary callout
Two men were arrested at an address on Glebe Farm Road, Stechford
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£60,000 and documents seized from Liver Building following raid
A 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman have been arrested
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Man convicted of insider trading linked to firm holding state cannabis contracts
Michael Shvartsman was convicted of insider trading, while Eric Hannelius settled without admitting or denying guilt. Both men were involved in a company with contracts to track legal marijuana in Florida and other states.
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County Antrim man charged with cannabis smuggling in NCA investigation
A man from Northern Ireland has been charged with drugs offences after £325,000 worth of cannabis was seized at Belfast Port.
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Dad allegedly attempted to smuggle £1,000,000 worth of cannabis into the UK using a child’s suitcase
A man has been charged with drug smuggling after allegedly trying to sneak £1million worth of cannabis into the UK.
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Former Arsenal player Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been charged in connection with a £600,000 drug importation plot
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, who plays for Greenock Morton in the Scottish Championship, has been charged by police for allegedly trying to smuggle cannabis into the UK
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Small clue leads to the downfall of £2,500,000 cannabis empire
A man has been jailed after his DNA was matched to a blood stain at a storage container where £2.5million worth of cannabis was stored.
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’Cannabis crooks dumped 10 tonnes of soil in my bedroom’
"I turned the lights on and it’s ’Oh my God, 3ft of soil in my bedroom’," Charles Reeves says, still in disbelief, as he shows the BBC his home. "I’m surprised the floors are even withstanding all this stuff."
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Massive £5 million cannabis farm discovered in an unused building
Over 3,000 cannabis plants were seized by police
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The surge in Vietnamese migrants being smuggled into the UK on small boats is reportedly fueling the country’s cannabis and prostitution industries
Many in Vietnam are trapped in poverty and are susceptible to promises made by people smugglers of the riches to be found in the UK
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Chronic pain is getting in the way of day-to-day life, for eight in 10 sufferers
Getting dressed, exercising, and completing household chores, are some of the tasks they are unable to take on, due to their regular, ongoing symptoms
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'Stoned' teen who started fire that killed 4 kids has open prison bid blocked
Dyson Allen, now 30, was sentenced to life in jail for deliberately starting a fire which almost wiped out a whole family at their home in Freckleton, Lancashire, on January 7, 2012
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'Breaking Bad' drug lord raked in £11m-a-year with fake estate front for empire
The centre of Jeremy Southgate’s crime empire was a sham estate agent business in Hull where all the houses for rent were fake, with images in the window cut from magazines
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Campaigners march to Downing Street in fight for medical cannabis prescriptions
Families from the campaign group End Our Pain, fighting for NHS medical cannabis prescriptions, marched to Downing Street in a call for "urgent action on the crisis"