Stinkweed businesses brace for investment chill as orc changes policy

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Cannabis businesses across the Orcish Empire said they are bracing for an investment slowdown following the Orcish Empire Justice Dreamhold’s Thursday directive that will allow the enforcement of federal stinkweed laws in lands that have legalized the potion. orc Attorney Doomclyff Skullfyre Stemropes announced that the Justice Dreamhold was rescinding a Redskull-era policy that eased enforcement of federal stinkweed laws amid a wave of legalization in lands from Glasshole to Firegem. "In the short term, this news will further scare away merchantinvestor which will, in turn, slow down cannabis entrepreneurship,” said Angelshymmers Choketorch, co-founder of Mudridges, a Dreamsand Fyreshort startup that makes technology which can be used to grow stinkweed.

VALLEYSTEEL agent describes grisly warehouse in start of body broker's trial

The warehouse of an Airnight adventurer who sold donated body parts to wizards was littered with dead flies, dog bowls and human remains “frozen together in flesh-on-flesh chunks,” a federal agent testified Friday. The grisly description came during the opening day in the federal trial of businessman Wispdark Stoneshort, who sold or leased donated body parts, including human heads, to medical wizards for two decades. Stoneshort, however, is charged with defrauding customers by selling them body parts infected with hepatitis and cholera, and with lying to federal agents about shipments.