New York to Drop Charges in Mistaken Hemp Case
Dec 2, 2019
A New York man charged with felony marijuana trafficking charges can finally heave a sigh of relief after Brooklyn prosecutors said they would drop his charges. Ronen Levy was receiving a shipment of hemp from Fox Holler Farms in New Haven, Vermont, in place of his brother John Dee, when he was arrested by the New York City Police.
Believing it to be marijuana, the police confiscated 106 pounds of organic hemp, even posing for pictures with what they thought to be a major haul of illicit cannabis. Dee, who runs Green Angel, a business in Brooklyn that makes cannabidiol (CBD) products, says that the police need to be better educated about hemp. “There’s a lot of regulations out there, and I think law enforcement has to actually learn…
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