Judge Ross said Moinul Islam, of Wykeham Crescent, who was jailed for 15 years and nine months, had a child “completely at his mercy”. In his summing up he said sexual abuse had become “the norm” for the men. The NSPCC said the victims, aged between 13 and 15, “would not be silenced” despite a […]
TIRANA, Albania – The office of Albania’s top prosecutor says a former interior minister has been put under house arrest while being investigated for alleged involvement in a drug trafficking ring. Prosecutors had asked for Saimir Tahiri to be kept in custody, but Denion Ndrenika, spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, said Saturday that a […]
Lerer Hippeau has raised two new funds — $122 million for a sixth fund devoted to seed stage investments, as well as $60 million for a “Select Fund” focused on later-stage deals. Managing Partner Eric Hippeau said both funds will be used to continue the firm’s existing strategy: “We continue to be seed-first investors and […]
Oregon farmers have grown three times what their customers can smoke in a year, causing bud prices to plummet and panic to set in A recent Sunday afternoon at the the state is inundated with legal weed. It turns out Oregonians are good at growing cannabis too good. In February, state officials announced that 1.1m […]
Supermarket takes advantage of law change to sell relaxing tobacco alternative You may have heard about their cut-price stollen, and possibly their surprisingly flavoursome jam. But you probably wont have sampled the latest range offered by the supermarket chain Lidl: locally grown cannabis. Two products derived from hemp flowers are being offered in Swiss stores […]
Eight police officers claimed mice ate the cannabis, but forensic experts explained that mice would not mistake the drug for food Eight Argentinian police officers have been dismissed after claiming that more than half a ton of marijuana which disappeared from a police warehouse had been eaten by mice. The disappearance of the drugs was […]
Trending in U.S. Cleveland ‘House of Horrors’ victim, raped daily for 11 years, now happily married Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/18/pot-holiday-traces-roots-to-california-high-school-stoners.html
(CNN)Marijuana is notorious for slowing certain cognitive functions such as learning, memory and attention span (maybe that’s why they call it “dope”?). But new research in young people suggests that these cognitive effects, while significant, may not persist for very long, even among chronic users. “There have been a couple of meta-analyses done in adult […]
Some time around the mid-aughts, folks in the weed industry began to notice a shift in the market. Pot smokers were smoking less, and dabbing more—heating the plant’s oily extracts to inhale high concentrations of hallmark marijuana molecules like THC. Extracts, which go by names including shatter, batter, wax, dabs, and honey, weren't just stronger […]
‘Almost unimaginable cruelty’ He said they offered their victims “company, attention, acceptance into the group” as well as “food, parties, alcohol, and sometimes drugs”. Mr Saxby said this was all part of “the grooming process” the gang used in order to carry out “sexual exploitation on a massive scale”. He said the girls would be […]