Drugs

Police expect to make more arrests after seizing 70kg of drugs worth $25 million that were imported from Iran in juice containers.

Police have seized 3.8 million methamphetamine tablets in Thailand's largest drug bust in years.

Cannabis plants estimated to be worth more than $A7.5 million have been seized in a series of raids across northern NSW.

Sophisticated growing techniques have led to super-strength strains of cannabis, with some of the most potent dope coming from Northland, says a senior drugs investigator.

This year police have for the first time asked residents from the Waitaki River south to keep their eyes peeled for plots of marijuana in the bush, on the roadside, or down the back of the farm.

New Zealanders and Australians are world-class dopeheads - and the news doesn't come as any surprise to those battling the evils of drugs.

Cannabis is the world's most popular illicit drug - and Australia and New Zealand top the list of users, an Australian study has found.

An alleged international cocaine smuggler who fled New Zealand 10 years ago has been arrested in Europe and detectives are working to bring him back to face charges.

The identities of two police staff arrested after a covert police investigation targeting an alleged criminal syndicate selling thousands of Ecstasy pills each week can be revealed.

This is the season for outdoor cannabis growing, and Southern District police are calling for landowners to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity that could be related to the plant's cultivation.