Teachers may confiscate mephedrone from pupils although it is not illegal, the schools minister has said.
It was feared that teachers were unable to seize the drug and other “legal highs” under the existing law.
But Schools …
Police in Colombia say they have found 16kg (35lb) of cocaine inside replicas of three sculptures by artist Fernando Botero being shipped to Spain.
The cocaine had been mixed into the clay of the sculptures as …
Four men have been charged with drugs offences following a police raid at a Lancashire pub.
Lancashire police executed a warrant at the Brownhill Arms in Whalley New Road, Blackburn, in October.
The men, aged 39 to …
A Lanarkshire gangster caught with £120,000 in cash, believed to have come from drug dealing, has been jailed for three years.
William Thomson, 47, from Lanark, was arrested in October 2006 as part of a major …
Two drug dealers who called themselves “The Young Team” and sold heroin from a tent in the Saracen area of Glasgow have been jailed.
Steven Gordon, 22, was sentenced to four years and eight months and …
A mechanic accused of a conspiracy to supply drugs has denied having anything to do with a plot to smuggle cocaine worth £200m.
John Edney, 57, of Main Road, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, told the jury at Blackfriars …
Two men have been remanded in custody until later this month after the discovery of more than 2,000 cannabis plants at a former bank in Bristol.
The plants were found in East Street, Bedminster, on Wednesday.
The …
Police have raided a suspected cannabis factory in Barwell.
It was the third similar raid in less than three weeks within the Hinckley and Bosworth local policing unit area, and the second one which followed information …
Police in an area of Leicestershire have carried out a third raid in three weeks on a suspected cannabis factory.
Officers recovered 72 plants from a house in Stanley Street, Barwell, on Thursday. No arrests have …
A police officer has been convicted of passing confidential information to his cocaine-taking wife and her drug dealer in return for free drugs and money.
Pc Mark Bohannan, passed on information that allowed Syed Imtiaz Ahmed …
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 …
