Mephedrone will be reclassified as a class B drug from Friday, Guernsey’s health authorities have announced.
It follows the same action being taken in the UK and a ban on the import and export of the …
The head of a drug trafficking gang that supplied large quantities of heroin and cannabis to drug users in Dundee has been jailed.
David Cameron, 63, was sentenced to three and a half years at Dundee …
Ex-commonwealth boxing champion Nicky Piper says he is “disappointed and surprised” Joe Calzaghe has used cocaine since retiring from the ring.
The former world boxing champion from Newbridge apologised after a newspaper reported that he had …
Two brothers from Kelty in Fife who were caught with a haul of drugs have each been ordered to hand over £12,099.
A judge made confiscation orders against John and Liam Cowan after proceedings were brought …
A court has heard how a tip off led to the recovery of drugs with a street value of £20,000 in Dumfries.
Brian Webber, 43, of the town’s Lime Tree Walk, admitted being concerned in the …
Three police forces have taken part in raids across the East of England as part of a drugs operation.
Officers from Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire executed simultaneous search warrants at properties.
They seized a quantity of drugs, …
A man from East Sussex has died after taking the legal drug mephedrone.
John Sterling Smith, 46, suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in The Drive, Hove, in the early hours of 7 February.
Police said …
People in Leeds are being warned that they risk being arrested if they carry the legal drug mephedrone.
Police said those found with the drug, which usually comes in a powder form, risked being arrested on …
No sooner is one legal high banned than another appears. The latest facing calls for a bar is mephedrone, or m-cat. It’s part of a war of attrition between dealers and the authorities. So how …
A Nottinghamshire man has been charged with a firearm and drugs offences after he was arrested on the A52.
The man, from East Leake was arrested in his vehicle near to the Queen’s Medical Centre on …
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 …
Leeds Festival passed “without incident” for the second year running with only 21 arrests for drugs and minor offences, police said.
Some 70,000 music fans attended the event over the bank holiday weekend.
Police said arrest figures …
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 …
