Students are being warned about the dangers of consuming plant food after seven young people were arrested at a Lancaster nightclub.
Doorstaff alerted the police when they found white powder during searches on the students at …
A 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged under the Misuse of Drugs Act after a cannabis farm was discovered at a house in Edinburgh.
Lothian and Borders Police were alerted to the cannabis by a member of the public.
Following a search of the property in Foulis Crescent, approximately 350 plants were seized with an estimated value of £50,000.
The man is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has revealed the band are starting auditions to replace Steven Tyler.
“We’ll have found a new singer by the summer and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road,” …
A gang of men from Kent have been jailed for serious drugs offences and money-laundering.
Brothers Leonard, 38, and Roger Powell, 27, Mark Sutherland, 34, and Paul Fenton, 53, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply …
Cannabis with an estimated street value of £400,000 has been found in a lorry load of bananas at an Essex port.
UK Border Agency officers at Harwich found the drugs on the lorry which arrived from …
Cannabis plants worth £100,000 have been seized by police in a raid on a house in Nottinghamshire.
Officers found 250 plants in the raid on a three-bedroom detached house in Rolleston Drive, Lenton, at 0745 GMT. …
A drug smuggler from Shropshire who plotted to bring cocaine and heroin into the UK has had his sentence reduced after saving an inmate’s life.
Naseer Zaman, 41, of Lilleshall, was serving 15 years after he …
SEIZURES of a sedative once known as “mother’s little helper” are soaring in parts of Wales as police try to combat growing demand for the drug.
Valium, used as an emotional crutch by struggling housewives of …
Valium is making a comeback, but not as the “mother’s little helper” prescription pill that tranquillised British suburban housewives in the 1960s and 1970s. According to an authoritative drug survey, published today, diazepam, as it …
Ecstasy was responsible for the major drug scare of the 90s. Yet the death of Leah Betts did little to deter the public, with demand and supply rising throughout the next decade until pills cost …
An addict who admitted dealing drugs to feed her own habit has been jailed for five years and seven months.
A court heard that Lorraine Johnston, 39, from Stranraer, sold heroin with a street value of …
Residents helped police find a drugs factory after smelling cannabis in bin liners dumped in their street in south-west London.
Officers were called to the street in Wimbledon on 12 January after residents complained about the …
Four men have been arrested after drugs said to be worth thousands of pounds were seized in Aberdeen.
The men – aged 18, 19, 20 and 29 – are from the London and Wolverhampton areas.
Grampian Police …
Two men and a woman have been arrested over drug offences on the Isle of Man.
Police stopped the three people on Empress Drive in Douglas on Sunday morning.
They also seized heroin with a street value …
A suspected cannabis plant has been found in a cell in a Dorset prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.
The suspicious plant was recently discovered by prison officers at HMP The Verne in Portland, a …
Government in-fighting is undermining efforts to tackle prisoners’ heroin addiction, a former drugs tsar says.
Mike Trace said prisoners were being prescribed the addictive heroin substitute methadone instead of being encouraged to get drug-free.
He said the …
The head of the UN drugs agency (UNODC) has warned that widespread drug trafficking is transforming Africa into a major crime hub.
Antonio Maria Costa said huge amounts of heroin and cocaine were being traded by …
A drugs courier was caught by police after he got tired of travelling by bus and took a taxi for the rest of his journey, a court has heard.
Student David Allan, 22, of Inverness, was …
One of Britain’s richest criminals has been jailed for trying to smuggle drugs into the Channel Islands.
Drugs baron Curtis Warren, who was once Interpol’s most wanted man, was given a 13-year sentence.
Warren, 46, and five …
Smokers of the strong ‘skunk’ variety of cannabis are seven times more likely to experience psychosis, according to the Daily Mail.
The news comes from research comparing 280 people being treated for new psychosis with 174 …
Repeated use of the drug popularly known as “ecstasy” significantly raises the risk of developing sleep apnea in otherwise healthy young adults with no other known risk factors for the sleep disturbance, a new study …
The numbers of young adults entering NHS-funded treatment for cocaine addiction are growing rapidly.
A total of 1,591 people in England aged 18-24 began receiving treatment for dependence on the class A drug in 2005-06. But …
Four men have been arrested after drugs said to be worth thousands of pounds were seized in Aberdeen.
The men – aged 18, 19, 20 and 29 – are from the London and Wolverhampton areas.
Grampian Police …
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has revealed the band are starting auditions to replace Steven Tyler.
“We’ll have found a new singer by the summer and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road,” …
Smokers of the strong ‘skunk’ variety of cannabis are seven times more likely to experience psychosis, according to the Daily Mail.
The news comes from research comparing 280 people being treated for new psychosis with 174 …
Gardaí are continuing to question two men in their 20s in County Monaghan after a large quantity of cannabis was seized.
The haul is believed to be worth about 300,000 euros.
Gardaí from the Monaghan Drugs Unit …
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