2025-03-19 | The Trier Regional Court has dropped the case against two men for commercial and illegal trafficking in narcotics. The decisive factors were the change in the legal situation, the long duration of the proceedings and the insolvency of the defendants, reports SWR.

The co-defendant was completely exonerated, while the main defendant had to complete 100 hours of community service. Both had relied on manufacturer certificates that ruled out the intoxicating effect of their products. The charges were based on sales between 2018 and 2019, including via a nationwide first cannabis vending machine. Despite the change in the law, cannabis trafficking remains a criminal offense.

Source: German Cannabis Business Association

Thanks to Vince Sliwoski for tipping us off to this only in Oregon story !

A man who was getting baked while bare of any clothes was seriously injured when his weed pen exploded, a lawsuit filed Friday claims.

Gustavo Mendes now seeks $230,000 from the manufacturer of the malfunctioning marijuana vaporizer and the Eugene pot shop where he bought it, according to allegations in the Lane County Circuit Court suit.

The incident happened Feb. 13, 2023 as the 28-year-old was standing in his bathroom “in a state of undress,” according to the lawsuit.

Mendes took a puff or two and realized the pen was superheating in his hands, the lawsuit says; in a flash, it exploded — spraying burning chemicals onto his eyes, torso and below his waist.

The subsequent fire on the bathroom counter and floor cost $20,000 to repair, while Mendes’ medical bills at a Springfield hospital and Gresham eye care center topped $3,500, the suit says.

After previously earning $68,000 a year as a welder, Mendes is now sensitive to light and must apply eye drops regularly, necessitating a change in careers, according to his attorney.

He had purchased the pen, branded under the name Quantum Alchemy, three days prior at Hwy 99 Cannabis Co. Both the retailer and manufacturer are named as defendants in court papers.

Quantum Alchemy’s website has expired and an email inquiry bounced back.

https://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/2025/02/naked-oregon-man-wounded-by-exploding-weed-pen-lawsuit-claims.html

Quantam has been getting recall notices as far back as 2022 as this OLCC alert testifies.

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ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING
File No. 3-22389

January 10, 2025 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Acreage Holdings, Inc. for violating the books and records provision of the federal securities laws when it created false records regarding a transfer of approximately $4 million that was temporarily moved into the company’s bank account a few days before the end of Acreage’s 2019 fiscal year.

According to the SEC’s order, Acreage caused an affiliated entity to transfer approximately $4.2 million into Acreage’s bank account on December 26, 2019, with the express understanding that Acreage would return the full amount at the beginning of the new year, which it did on January 3, 2020.  Acreage then allegedly created journal entries and other records that mischaracterized the round-trip transfer, first as a repayment of debt owed by the affiliate and later as a short-term loan to Acreage.  The SEC’s order further finds that after certain employees’ concerns about the round-trip nature of the transaction were escalated to a member of Acreage’s board of directors, Acreage recorded an additional journal entry that effectively reversed the transaction.

The SEC’s order also finds that during the audit of Acreage’s fiscal year 2019 financial statements, Acreage created and provided written documents to the accounting firm conducting the audit that misrepresented and omitted material facts about the round-trip cash transfer.  As a result, the SEC’s order finds that Acreage violated Section 13(b)(2)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by failing to make and keep books, records, and accounts that accurately and fairly reflected the round-trip cash transfer.

Without admitting or denying the findings in the SEC’s order, Acreage agreed to cease and desist from committing or causing violations or future violations of Section 13(b)(2)(A), and to pay a civil penalty of $225,000.

The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Kiran Patel, Nandy Celamy, Russel Feldman and George N. Stepaniuk, and was supervised by Thomas P. Smith, Jr., all of the New York Regional Office.