Drugs
Arrested on cannabis charges
Police arrested two Balclutha men yesterday and charged them with several cannabis-related offences.
Police seek to confiscate cash from jailed pharmacist
An Auckland pharmacist in jail for selling cold medicine to drug dealers for the manufacture of P could have to cough up the $129,000 that police say he made in profit.
Dope grower defends charges on grounds he didn't break God's law
A man is defending charges of cultivating 348 cannabis plants on the grounds that he does not recognise New Zealand law and the only law is God's law.
Calls for Kronic to be banned
Long-term effects of Kronic not known
Vomiting, drowsiness, chest pain, palpitations and dissociation from reality are some of the symptoms associated with synthetic cannabis such as Kronic, a Dunedin-based toxicologist says.
Fewer prison positive drug tests
Drug-selling mother follows daughter to jail
A Rotorua woman has been jailed for selling cannabis to undercover police -- just months after her daughter was jailed for the same crime.
Officials in touch with accused Kiwi drug 'mules'
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mfat) says it has been in contact with a heavily pregnant New Zealand woman and her partner being held in a Japanese jail accused of smuggling methamphetamine into
Money enticing more drug mules
A pregnant Auckland woman and her partner are among the rising number of New Zealanders caught smuggling drugs into other countries for "a bit of extra cash".