PUBLIC WARNING ON ILLEGAL CANNABIS EDIBLES AFTER DISPENSARY AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRE SHUT DOWN
PUBLIC WARNING ON ILLEGAL CANNABIS EDIBLES AFTER DISPENSARY AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRE SHUT DOWN
York Regional Police is issuing a warning to cannabis users and parents after a $1.7 million seizure of illegal cannabis and cannabis edibles that appear to look like common candy.
Included in the seizure were a variety of edible cannabis products including gummy bears, chocolate bars, lollipops and cotton candy, all containing cannabis, that look no different in appearance than similar products made and marketed to children. Many of the products were not adequately labelled and instructions regarding dosage were unclear.
Investigators with the #4 District Criminal Investigations Bureau have processed more than $1.7 million in illegal cannabis and cannabis-related products following an investigation that began on Thursday, February 28, 2019. Investigators observed the suspect in a suspicious transaction at a commercial building in the area of Keele Street and Steeles Avenue West. The suspect was placed under arrest and officers found that he was in possession of more than $6,000 in currency, 400 grams of cannabis flower and business documentation related to a dispensary located in the City of Toronto.
Investigators executed search warrants at the commercial building as well as a dispensary located at 191 Baldwin Road in the City of Toronto and seized cannabis and cannabis-related products. They have since charged Emil MIKHAILOV, 42, from the City of Vaughan with cannabis distribution offences.
Cannabis users should be reminded that the federal Cannabis Act legalizes fresh and dried cannabis, cannabis oil, and plants and seeds for cultivation. The Ontario Cannabis Store, at OCS.ca, sells dried cannabis and cannabis oil. Seeds will be available at a later date. Edible products and concentrates are not legal for purchase or available for sale at this time.
Police are warning parents to ensure children have no access to these harmful products and warning cannabis users that edibles remain illegal, so no safe guidelines around dosages or potency have been developed.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the York Regional Police #4 District Criminal Investigations Bureau at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7441, or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, or leave an anonymous tip online at www.1800222tips.com.
You take down one shop, and three will pop up tomorrow. OCS is overpriced, low quality garbage
modern day version of Prohibition raids
BFD YOU MADE MONEY
I’ll never pay for over priced weed and the legal edibles will put people in diabetic comas trying to get the same dose as just one of these products. Good luck with sales because the black market is thriving still.
This is awful. You are hurting people with your actions. It’s not too late to quit the police and start atoning for your mistakes.
Yeah and Smirnoff Ice looks like a sports drink, lets round all of that shit up too
How fucking dare you pull this shit and say it’s ‘for the children’
Fuck cops everywhere
Good candy 🍭 this go catch shooters instead stop worrying about ‘the children’
Thanks for nothing cops of Toronto. How about instead of pretending to protect our city you bust some real drug dealers instead? Get off your asses and do some work. Fentanyl is a problem, weed is a solution.
Very nice work!
Police should protest and not be closing these dispensaries. OCS provides poor quality products at outrageous prices you don’t have to take my word for it look at the reviews. Clearly people are not receiving the proper strain or concentrates that they need or want and that’s why they prefer black market (70%) of Canadians use the black market.
If you want to make a real big difference bust the pharmacies selling Fentynal and doctors pushing opioids for every little issue. Everyone will post positive comments and that will gain you more positive view by the public. (what might lead to more funding)
Look at the comments and make your assessment if you achieved something positive.
you’re only allowed to smoke your medicine, don’t ya know
dazzling video quality.
What a joke, the warning should be for people buying cannabis from the government. The government’s weed has a higher chance to give you some lung infection from mold or a fucking headache from not being properly flushed and cured. In my opinion. The police are a God damn joke and all you who took part in this raid just made it way more dangerous now. At least then you knew there was a black market dealer people were buying from where NO HEALTH REPORTS AT ALL HAVE STEMMED FEOM. now you raid this place, cut the supply and what, you think people are going to buy from the government ? Hahahhaha you are truly knieve retards if you think that. Now a new black market supply will come in, in that ones place and you have no way of knowing if this new supply is safe or not. So way topick up the dice and roll it again after fucking up an already good thing. NO ONE HAS EVER DIED TO BLACK MARKET CANNABIS. All this bullshit about health and safety is only so you can sway the morons in this country who are as uneducated as yourselves on this matter.
FUCK THE POLICE
0:31 cop used gloves to deal with a plastic container😂
Great one boys!!! It’s important to take out any competition for the government. Really doing a bang-up job.
Oh, while your super duper drug enforcement team is out on the streets, why don’t you take care of the bloody emergency state we’re in with fentanyl. After all, that’s killing people every few days. But hey, great job keeping people from getting stoned and supporting their local convenience store. A couple more pot busts and you might just get these people back eating their vegetables!
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what the fuck is this nonesense. it’s either legal or illegal. make up your damn minds. this is all starting to air on the side of gangsterism on the part of York Region Police. yea there i said it! maybe try to make it less obvious fellas. smarten up
This is just embarrassing waste of our resources. Go catch a killer or a pedophile.
Argy meanwhile, enough criminals are polluting our environment, cities and earth with real chemicals and poison…but yall gonna big up yourself for busting a plant. Good job pigs.
Maybe if the govenment roll out plan wasn’t so piss poor people would buy it legally. Sad that my tax dollars gets wasted on shit like this
Big deal you took down some candy. Get the Fentynal off the damn streets
It’s not even illegal it’s just un licensed.