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Amazon Halts Workforce Testing For Marijuana

America's second largest employer confirms it will no longer test staff for marijuana use, and begins testing for Covid variants in the UK

Worldwide police operation against dark web vendors results in 179 arrests, seizure of 500kg of drugs, $6.5m (£5m) in cash and 64 firearms

The specialist squad formed earlier this year aims to tackle the problem of drones being used to smuggle contraband into prisons

Crimestoppers announces 20 percent increase in information on cannabis cultivation following summer Scratch and Sniff campaign

Legal

Man accused of running the illegal marketplace under the alias ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ receives a vote of confidence

So far, eight people across four different countries have been detained in connection with the illegal online marketplace

Facebook says adverts for smoking blends were the result of a technical glitch

Attacks over Tor on illegal drug marketplace believed to be part of extortion attempts

Cloud

IBM's new cloud analytics platform helps researchers extract data from patents and scientific journals

Anonymous has threatened Mexican drug cartel with retaliation after it kidnaps a member of the group

Google is to hand over £300m to the US Department of Justice to settle an online pharmacy probe

Cloud

A disgruntled US IT administrator deleted multiple virtual hosts at Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi