‘Harry Potter’ shop was selling wizard cannabis cookies
A ‘Harry Potter’ shop in London’s Oxford Street was selling cookies laced with the active ingredient in cannabis, court heard
Next door the ‘Londenero’ shop was offering ‘Hyper Products’ including four magic mushroom cookies labelled ‘Magic Dragon’ and three other cookies bearing the name ‘Game Over’.
The ‘Harry Potter shop at 399A Oxford Street, ran by the company ‘5IVESTAR Limited’, was found selling food products without English translations on the label.
Unauthorised ‘Hashish’ and ‘White Widow’ CBD cookies were seized from the Harry Potter shop, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
The director of the 399B store, Ahmad Yar Jan, appeared in court alongside an unnamed individual linked to the adjacent wizard-themed shop ran by 5IVESTAR Limited.
Solicitor Kirsty Panton, for Westminster City Council, said the case concerned unauthorised novelty foods and products bearing non-English food labels.
She made clear a food condemnation order for the distribution of unlicensed novelty goods related only to Londenero.
Matthew Nelson, Senior Environmental Health Officer at Westminster City Council, said he ‘found numerous products (in both shops) that were on sale with no English translation.
‘(This) poses a health risk to any customer with potential allergies, or any customer wishing to read the nutritional declarations for certain health issues, such as Diabetes.’
Mr Nelson said that in the Harry Potter shop he identified a ‘cell’ of CBD products not on the approved novelty registry for the Food Safety Act.’
He said ‘magic mushroom cookies’ were found in the The Londenero store.
‘There is no transparency, we don’t know where these products came from – there is no country or origin, no registered address for the manufacturer – which is legally required.’
Mr Nelson said the company name attached to the suspect products was ‘Hyper Products’.
He told the court: ‘The company, when google searched, comes up completely blank – there is no information at all.’
Mr Nelson said he gave the companies ‘three weeks to provide English-translated labels for the items’ but received no response.
More than 3,000 products were seized from both shops – including seven magic mushroom cookies and ‘around 10’ unlicensed CBD products.
Mr Jan told the court he had not been in the shop in the past few months because of a ‘family matter’.
The businessman said he ‘didn’t know’ how the magic mushroom cookies came to be in the store.
District Judge Patricia Evans asked if he was happy for the council to destroy the items seized from his store.
Mr Jan replied: ‘’Yeah, no problem.’
He was ordered to pay £2,760 to cover the council’s costs while 5IVESTAR LTD must pay £2664 in costs.
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