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NationalJuly 8

$30m of meth found in handbags

Thousands of handbags hiding $30 million worth of P have been seized by Customs.

OpinionOctober 11

'World should watch NZ's drug experiment'

It's been nearly a century since the United States began its experiment in prohibiting recreational drugs besides alcohol, caffeine and tobacco - and virtually no one sees the trillion dollar policy as a success.

DunedinJuly 29

Cannabis advised as treatment option

Synthetic cannabis addicts should smoke cannabis as it is the ''lesser of two evils'', says Dunedin Community Alcohol and Drug Services clinician Mark Greco.

NationalJune 11

Wanaka man pleads guilty in cocaine case

A Wanaka painter involved in a $1 million cocaine distribution ring dubbed "a Guy Ritchie plot line without the bloody ending" has been told that jail is an inevitable outcome.

NationalMay 27

Kiwi charged over big Aussie drug haul

A New Zealand woman faces 10 years in prison after she allegedly flew into Australia with 8.5kg of methamphetamine in her luggage.

NationalMay 20

Briton jailed over 3kg cocaine bust

A Briton who admitted arranging for 3kg of cocaine with a street value of almost $1 million to be delivered to his old schoolmates in Auckland has been sentenced to six and a-half years in prison.

NationalFebruary 15

Father, son in court on drugs charges

A father and son have appeared in court accused of importing cocaine and P into New Zealand.

NationalFebruary 14

Major drugs bust in Mount Maunganui

A father and son are due in court after police discovered 350 grams of cocaine and methamphetamine hidden in a Mount Maunganui apartment block storage unit plus a sizeable sum of cash.

WorldJanuary 22

British woman on Bali death row over drugs

An Indonesian court has sentenced a middle-aged British woman to death for smuggling cocaine worth more than $US2.5 million into the resort island of Bali.

NationalDecember 27

Weather boosts Northland cannabis crop

While those veges in the garden will be bolting with the warm rain, so too will the cannabis crops of Northland drug growers.

NationalDecember 20

$60,000 drug parcel intercepted

More than $60,000 worth of MDMA has been seized and a 25-year-old Wellington woman charged after Customs intercepted a package with 330 grams of the drug.

NationalDecember 12

Explosions during Nth Island AOS raid

Explosions were heard at a residential address in Katikati, Bay of Plenty, today as armed police executed a drugs warrant.

NationalDecember 10

Refugee sentenced to jail over drugs charges

A Vietnamese refugee caught running a million-dollar indoor cannabis operation, in which he stole $26,000 worth of electricity to heat and light the rental houses where he was growing the drug has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

NationalOctober 14

Pair found dead in Coromandel P cave

Two men are dead after going to extreme measures to manufacture drugs - their bodies were found in a P-lab in an abandoned mine shaft deep in the Coromandel bush.

NationalOctober 10

'The Boss' remains anonymous in drug court battle

The identity of the millionaire businessman facing designer drug charges remains secret in a case described by one judge as the "battleground for the legal high industry".

NationalOctober 5

Kiwi facing drugs charges in Philippines

A New Zealand man has been arrested for allegedly possessing marijuana as he was about to board a flight in the Philippines.

NationalSeptember 5

Claim Auckland gym at centre of cocaine plot

An Auckland gym was a link in a cocaine supply chain that smuggled the drug from Argentina to Auckland, a jury has been told.

NationalAugust 26

Tests show crash drivers took drugs

More than half the drivers taken to hospital after causing a crash were found to have drugs in their system, a study has found.

NationalAugust 19

Dope offered as raffle prize

Hawkes Bay police shut down one raffle they were certain would not have been drawn under their supervision - the first prize was a bag of cannabis.

DunedinAugust 7

South leads cannabis haul stats

The Southern police district was a hot spot for cannabis seized in the country this year, police statistics show.

QueenstownJuly 17

Arrests a 'king hit' to southern drug trade

Police believe they have delivered a ''king hit'' to the multimillion-dollar illegal cannabis trade in Otago and Southland with the arrest of five people.

NationalJune 19

Differing views on drugs by teens

Young people believe the drug methamphetamine, or P, is for "losers" but see little difference between cannabis, ecstasy, tobacco and alcohol, according a survey.

QueenstownJune 14

Two more charged in drugs operation

Two further arrests have been made in relation to a Queenstown drug operation that police say involved class A drugs with an estimated street value of $100,000.

QueenstownJune 10

Drug accused in Auckland court, another appears today

One of six people arrested during a Queenstown police drug operation in April appeared in the Auckland District Court on Friday for a plea inquiry.

WorldMay 28

Housewife may face death in Indonesia

A 55-year-old housewife is among four British nationals facing a possible death sentence in Indonesia after the alleged seizure of more than $2.5 million worth of cocaine in Bali.

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