Queenstown parents were this week given the chance to increase their awareness of drug use and related issues through a visit by a leading drug educator.
More than 300 people have been arrested in a two-month crackdown on drug houses.
Police have seized $100,000 worth of drugs, and more than a dozen firearms in a series of drug raids on homes in the Wellington region.
A New Zealand man has been arrested in Australia's Northern Territory after allegedly acting as drug mule transporting kava to Aboriginal communities.
A Rotorua drug dealer had more than 3500 visits to his home in 45 days, the High Court at Rotorua was told.
Mexican soldiers have found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 120ha, the Defence Department says.
The head of a drug taskforce that uncovered two suitcases full of heroin and cocaine in the back of a BMW says it was the biggest haul he had ever seen in his 23 year career as a police officer.
At least 18 people including a preteen boy have died in a single day of cartel violence in Ciudad Juarez.
One of two women caught at the Queenstown International Airport trying to carry cannabis concealed in their bras to Christchurch appeared in the Queenstown District Court yesterday
Siu Taga, described in court as "a reckless and determined cannabis dealer", has been jailed for three years.
A Rotorua mother who started dealing drugs in order to fund her methamphetamine habit has been jailed for three years 10 months.
A Rotorua mother who started dealing drugs in order to fund her methamphetamine habit has been jailed for three years 10 months.
A man who smuggled hundreds of thousands of ecstasy tablets into New Zealand from London inside Harrods gift baskets has been jailed for eight years and nine months.
Mounting public pressure and increased security problems are forcing some dairies to abandon selling Kronic, while others advertise they are not selling synthetic cannabinoids.
Police arrested two Balclutha men yesterday and charged them with several cannabis-related offences.
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.
Kronic, an over-the-counter cannabis substitute, should be banned, and stores profiting from the product named and shamed, opponents say.
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.
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.
Drugs are being shut out of the country's prisons, with prisoners recording fewer positive drug tests as the Department of Corrections clamps down on contraband.