Shops that sell hemp products – often black-market marijuana – have opened across Pennsylvania, and law enforcement efforts to crack down on them have been inconsistent and haphazard, according to an investigation by the Philadelphia Inquirer, with support from the Fund. The Inquirer found that shops operate and sell drugs and drug paraphernalia openly and with impunity. Stores routinely reopen after being shut down by authorities; the Inquirer team found one shop that reopened 10 times.
Efforts to crack down on smoke shops selling marijuana in Pennsylvania have been haphazard and ineffective, grantee finds
