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$11 million worth of ganja seized in Portland

A team of officers assigned to the Portland Police Division seized approximately 2,725 pounds of compressed ganja during an operation in Orange Bay district. The police report that about 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a team was in the area when they...

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