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Jim Belushi: Juicy Fields Celebrity Influencer and Facilitator Remains Unprosecuted

Juicyfields promotion of ICBC and Jim Belushi Despite the international busts in the middle of April, many of the scam’s facilitators remain untouched, including celebrity Jim Belushi. It is overdue that they are prosecuted. Jim Belushi is a well-known figure in the cannabis industry and beyond. He is a celebrity actor and well known in the American cannabis industry. However, his first entre into the European biz, via the Juicy Fields sponsored ICBC cannabis business conference, and allowing the scam to use his image, puts him in the paid facilitator category. It is overdue that he too, is put on…

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Juicy Fields Arrests: The Silence of The Cannapress

In the last week since an international police operation began arresting suspects, the mainstream press has had a field day – yet the cannapress has largely stayed quiet. Why? For the last week, the international news media has had a field day reporting on the Juicy Fields case – in most cases for the first time. In marked contrast, however, the cannapress, with one notable exception in Europe anyway, has stayed remarkably silent. This is far from surprising. Generally, the cannabis media is not investigative, curious, and generally reliant on sponsors who do not want investors, or anyone else, to…

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Juicy Fields Arrests Just The Beginning

International arrests in multiple countries of at this point 11 people (that we know of) is just the tip of the iceberg. And we have the inside scoop. Last week, the first arrests in the Juicy Fields scam made global news. Which then of course led to the massive speculation, particularly in the cannapress and social media, but also the German media, about who it was who actually got busted. While the Cannabis Cowboys over at DW, who also quoted the Russian Whistleblower (this time anonymously after outing him in the Russian press), wanted to revel in their inside knowledge,…

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Facebook sued for SEK240 million for fraudulent ads on the platform

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, Swedish legal representative Lars Olofsson filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook Sweden AB at the Stockholm District Court. Olofsson represents 514 victims who have been deceived by ads published on Facebook in a cannabis ponzi scheme called Juicy Fields, which was initially and most successfully active between April 1 2020 and July 11, 2022. “With this lawsuit, I am demanding that Facebook take responsibility for the fact that fraudulent ads appeared on the platform and further that they were not removed when Facebook users (and my clients) reported them as fraudulent ads to the…