Taking on the facilitators one class action case at a time
The European cannabis media is increasingly quoting the founder of Sanity Group about his plans for the future of recreational cannabis, but where was he when the Juicy Fields scam hit Germany?
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…
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,…
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…
