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NEW South Wales drug sniffer dogs have been been branded an expensive failure.
A cannabis drought in Ulster has forced dealers and users to make trips to Scotland for their drugs.
DANCE music fans enjoy the most sex - but lovers of classical music are more likely to have smoked cannabis.
Hundreds of Cheltenham town centre clubbers were tested for drugs and explosives as part of Operation Wizard. Plain clothes and uniformed officers were stationed at club entrances to search and arrest drug users.
Medical marijuana users are more likely to finish Hepatitis C treatment and so are more likely to be cured, according to a newly published study conducted in San Francisco and Oakland.
Lawyers for Oakland “guru of ganja” Ed Rosenthal want more access to the grand jury that’s probing him anew, even as they move rapidly toward his retrial on old charges.
Marijuana can improve the effectiveness of drug therapy for hepatitis C, a potentially deadly viral infection that affects more than 3 million Americans, a study has found. The work adds to a growing literature supporting the notion that in some circumstances pot can offer medical benefits.
The struggle to wage an effective war on drugs will continue after government officials recently discovered that their recent $1.4 billion antidrug campaign failed to lure teenagers away from the illegal substances.
Britain has a greater level of serious drug abuse than any other country in Europe, damning new figures show.
A pensioner who is believed to be Britain’s oldest convicted drug dealer was jailed for 18 months yesterday after a court heard that he had more than 400 cannabis plants in his greenhouse.
Four years ago, curiosity about marijuana brought an Idaho teenager named Nick to a popular online drug encyclopedia.
The price of cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis and other drugs is at an all-time low, clearly indicating that efforts to stem the spread of illegal drugs on Britain’s streets are failing.
Two of Notts’ leading political figures have told a group of sixth formers they want cannabis legalised.
GRASS on your neighbour if their curtains are always closed - it could be a sign they are running a cannabis factory.
Some moms and dads might want to take a lesson from their kids: Just say no. The government reported Thursday that 4.4% of baby boomers ages 50 to 59 indicated that they had used illicit drugs in the past month. It marks the third consecutive yearly increase recorded for that age group by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Is it time to forge an “exit strategy” for our prolonged “war on drugs”?
When police raided the 600-year-old listed country cottage of gardener Michael Spier they found enough cannabis to last him ten years and menus giving details of varieties of the drug and their effect, it was claimed yesterday.
A drugs campaigner who sent a cannabis plant to Tony Blair and his cabinet has been given a suspended sentence.
The first medicinal product based on cannabis was filed for approval in Britain yesterday, and could be widely available in a year’s time.
GW Pharmaceuticals has submitted a pioneering cannabis-based medicine for assessment by several European regulators as a potential treatment for spasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Jack McConnell yesterday reminded police that cannabis possession is a crime, after it emerged some forces are giving warnings to adults caught with the drug instead of passing on cases for prosecution.
The slender, 2m-high plants in Martin Pllumbi’s field in northern Albania could bring either a profit or a prison sentence, depending on the results of a chemical analysis being carried out in Italy.
THE Capital’s alcohol and drugs chief has described a new police policy of issuing warnings to adults found in possession of cannabis as a “sad reflection of society”.
