<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>341175</docID> <postdate>2025-03-27 09:36:16</postdate> <headline>Cookie crumbles for dopey cannabis delivery service</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-341176" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cannabis-cookies-e1743028510680.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="533" /></p> <caption>Cannabis cookies were among the confectionary and baked goods seized in a major police operation. Photo: NSW Police</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <strong>Luke Costin</strong> in Sydney</span></p> <p><strong>Drug-laced cookies and confectionary have been seized alongside more than $260,000 in cash from an alleged UberEats-style cannabis delivery service.</strong></p> <p>Some 39 people have been charged with drug supply and related offences after numerous syndicates were found advertising prohibited drugs for sale on an open-source website, NSW police said on Thursday.</p> <p>Several were caught in vehicles packed with dozens of bags of cannabis and other items including vapes, cannabis cookies and confectionery containing THC, the main active ingredient of cannabis.</p> <p>More than 1500 individual bags of cannabis and $262,000 in cash were seized during the targeted arrests.</p> <p>A 32-year-old man was allegedly caught in a home in Arncliffe, near Sydney Airport, with vacuum-sealed plastic bags containing cannabis, weighing over five kilograms, more than $5,000 in cash, an electronic money counter and mobile telephones.</p> <p>A hydroponics business to which he was allegedly linked was then raided, resulting in the discovery of 43 kilograms of cannabis and other items.</p> <p>The man has been bailed on four charges including drug supply. He is next due to face court in May.</p> <p>A second man, 55, is due in court in April after allegedly being stopped in a car in Bondi with 42 bags of cannabis and 24 pre-rolled joints.</p> <p>Police also found cannabis THC cookies and $610 in cash.</p> <p>He faces three charges including drug supply and has been granted bail by a court.</p> <p>The illicit cannabis crackdown comes months after police leaders attended the NSW Drug Summit, in which harm minimisation experts pressed for decriminalisation of small-scale possession.</p> <p>"If we really want to undo the many harms of prohibition, we need to shift from the black market to a regulated market," Harm Reduction Australia executive director Annie Madden told the summit in December.</p> <p>The push has been dismissed by the Minns Labor government as irresponsible.</p> </body>