Toronto police seize 1 million dollars worth of marijuana from pizzeria – is that including the cocaine and cash?

piff — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:18:16 +0000

Pizza Gigi's owner, 57-year-old Salvatore Crimi, sold the drug from the restaurant, police alleged.

Investigators obtained a warrant for Monday's raid after watching customers enter and leave without any food.

Police said in a statement they had also seized cocaine, other drugs and 8,000 Canadian dollars in the search.

The restaurant, said to be popular with University of Toronto students, has been at its location for 30 years, according to the Toronto Star.

PHOTOS: Cannabis Cafe opens in Oregon

piff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:13:33 +0000

At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" — a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapours of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.

It’s all perfectly legal and, for cancer patient Albert Santistevan, it's about time.

"It’s a very positive atmosphere. We could use more places like that," the 56-year-old former jewelry shop owner said.

A few weeks ago, Santistevan would have had no place to go. But with the Obama administration’s decision last month to soften the federal stance on medical marijuana, the Cannabis Cafe and a lounge across town popped up, bringing a little bit of pot-friendly Amsterdam to this working class corner of Portland.

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Toronto police seize 1 million dollars worth of marijuana from pizzeria – is that including the cocaine and cash?

PHOTOS: Cannabis Cafe opens in Oregon