Drugs and Alcohol

South Cumbria named 'capital' for medical cannabis use North-West Evening Mail07:52
Cheshire man part of UK-wide gang busted with £7.8m of cocaine Cheshire Live06:07
Teacher ended up in car chase with gardaí after ‘unwittingly’ eating cannabis-laced cake The Irish Times18:55
Drug dealer ordered to hand over Tesla shares worth just £91 The Pembrokeshire Herald17:49
Jersey receptive to campaigner’s call for recreational cannabis trials Jersey Evening Post16:41
Cocaine worth over $1.1M seized from 'empty' truck at Texas border Fox News14:08
Two arrested after suspected cocaine discovered in van on Port Road Derry Journal13:10

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Drug dealer sentenced for supply and production of cocaine Wigan Today08:44

In the last 2 hours

As a Leicester City fan my Newcastle mate asked me to explain these 10 years from ecstasy to agony The Mag08:02

South Cumbria named 'capital' for medical cannabis use North-West Evening Mail07:52

In the last 4 hours

Sixteen-year-old girl often missing from care caught selling crack cocaine on O’Connell Street, court told The Irish Times07:08

Cheshire man part of UK-wide gang busted with £7.8m of cocaine Cheshire Live06:07

In the last 6 hours

Drug dealer busted after cocaine he was carrying fell out of his pocket at pub South Wales Guardian04:06

Earlier today

STAT Plus: With successful trials, Roche takes its MS drug to regulators, but safety questions… STAT00:22

Yesterday

Scientists Gave Salmon Cocaine. The Reason Why Is Even Crazier. VICE News23:34 21-Apr-26

What Cannabis Lenders Think Rescheduling Will Mean for Capital Markets National Law Review22:43 21-Apr-26

Kilmacrennan man found in possession of cannabis worth €2,800 Donegal News22:10 21-Apr-26

Ultra-potent Opioid Is Quietly Driving Overdose Deaths The Tribune, California21:57 21-Apr-26

Cannabis Pharma Firm Should Pay Back $2.1 Million, SEC Says (1) Bloomberg Law21:39 21-Apr-26

56-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Be The World’s Oldest Cannabis Plant By About 30 Million Years IFLScience21:15 21-Apr-26

FDA pushes for broader powers to curb misleading direct to consumer drug advertising JD Supra20:51 21-Apr-26

Police unsurprised to find cocaine-filled Kinder eggs hidden in dealers' underwear Wales Online20:50 21-Apr-26

'Green fingered' man, 70, avoids jail after growing cannabis plants worth €50k a decade ago Irish Mirror20:10 21-Apr-26

Judge postpones OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma's sentencing to let opioid victims attend in person Pittsburgh Post-Gazette19:58 21-Apr-26

Dad offering free cocaine to early bird customers stopped with graft phone round his neck Liverpool Echo19:19 21-Apr-26

Cannabis and Class A drugs seized in police raids Dorset Echo19:13 21-Apr-26

Man, 26, whose body found on golf course died from effects of cocaine, coroner says York Press19:10 21-Apr-26

Five men jailed after 27.5kg cocaine plot across the UK - including in Cumbria The Whitehaven News, Cumbria19:09 21-Apr-26

Teacher ended up in car chase with gardaí after ‘unwittingly’ eating cannabis-laced cake The Irish Times18:55 21-Apr-26

Drug dealer ordered to hand over Tesla shares worth just £91 The Pembrokeshire Herald17:49 21-Apr-26

Music teacher who unwittingly ate cannabis cake drove 800 metres in reverse and thought gardai… Irish Mirror17:38 21-Apr-26

Music teacher drove 800m in reverse after eating cannabis cake BreakingNews.ie17:23 21-Apr-26

Delaney's header sends Ammanford Town away fans into ecstasy as JD Cymru Premier spot secured Wales Online17:17 21-Apr-26

Cannabis Through the Ages: What Humanity Knew for Millennia — and What Prohibition Made Us Forget High Times16:54 21-Apr-26

Woman ate cannabis cake, drove 800 metres in reverse mistaking gardaí for robbers, court hears TheJournal.ie16:49 21-Apr-26

Jersey receptive to campaigner’s call for recreational cannabis trials Jersey Evening Post16:41 21-Apr-26

Music teacher gets two-year road ban for driving 800m in reverse after eating cannabis cake The Irish Independent16:38 21-Apr-26

Tween, Teen Cannabis Use Linked to Slower Cognitive Development HealthDay16:36 21-Apr-26

10 arrests, problem properties shut and suspected drugs seized during police raids on Teesside Teesside Live16:32 21-Apr-26

Two year road ban for music teacher who drove 800m in reverse after eating cannabis cake The Irish Independent16:28 21-Apr-26

High Times And Last Prisoner Project Launch Ongoing Partnership To Fight For Cannabis Prisoners High Times16:14 21-Apr-26

The Secret History of LSD in Psychiatry Psychology Today15:58 21-Apr-26

2015 to 2023 Saw Drop in US Patients Prescribed Long-Term Opioids Dermatology Advisor15:31 21-Apr-26

Polysubstance, Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths Increased From 2004 to 2022 Psychiatry Advisor15:28 21-Apr-26

10 Black Celebrity Investors Driving the Cannabis Industry Forward Black Enterprise15:04 21-Apr-26

Woman caught with cannabis in suitcase at airport BBC14:58 21-Apr-26

Cocaine worth over $1.1M seized from 'empty' truck at Texas border Fox News14:08 21-Apr-26

Man who came to UK in back of lorry jailed over £500,000 cannabis farm STV14:00 21-Apr-26

Paranoid cannabis user recorded torture of 93-year-old man, jury told The Independent13:54 21-Apr-26

Two arrested after suspected cocaine discovered in van on Port Road Derry Journal13:10 21-Apr-26

Former lorry driver jailed for drug deals at local chapel County Times12:54 21-Apr-26

Man used false name to get cannabis posted to his home The Guernsey Press & Star12:30 21-Apr-26

Voices of addicts 'written out' of new National Drugs Strategy Dublin Live12:21 21-Apr-26

Salmon Are Getting Dosed With Cocaine Via Waterways: It’s Changing How They Move Study Finds12:14 21-Apr-26

'Extremely evasive' Cork man fined for cocaine possession Irish Examiner12:09 21-Apr-26

Cocaine, cash and counterfeits seized in property raid north of Lancaster The Tab12:07 21-Apr-26

Mexico probing role of U.S. officials killed in car crash after drug lab raid CBS News11:25 21-Apr-26

Pensioner accused of helping to run £100,000 cannabis factory Lowestoft Journal11:15 21-Apr-26

Experts issue warning over cocaethylene - the disturbing new substance that gets created when you mix cocaine and… Tyla10:13 21-Apr-26

‘Damage has been done’: Minnesota cannabis growers sue township for denying their operation MPR News10:06 21-Apr-26

Majority of Brits support cannabis reform, YouGov survey finds Leafie08:29 21-Apr-26

Anti-drug smuggling unit seizes enough cocaine to kill more than 1,400,000 people Metro.co.uk08:26 21-Apr-26

Cocaine entering waterways is having a big effect on young salmon The Independent07:33 21-Apr-26

Coked to the gills? Cocaine-laced wastewater can make salmon roam twice as far The Conversation (UK)07:18 21-Apr-26

Dangerous driver had taken cocaine Wigan Today05:03 21-Apr-26

Man to face trial accused of dealing crack cocaine and heroin Barry & District News, Wales04:02 21-Apr-26

Road ban for Telford van driver, 32, who took cannabis before driving Shropshire Star02:05 21-Apr-26

Teen cannabis use linked to slower gains in memory and focus The Independent01:42 21-Apr-26

Police crack down on cannabis smokers flocking to Hyde Park to celebrate 420 drugs rally MailOnline01:30 21-Apr-26

Could marijuana odor lead to fines? KGUN9 News, Arizona01:24 21-Apr-26

Defense Wins Championships: Why Distribution (Not Branding) Will Determine Who Survives the Cannabis Shakeout High Times00:27 21-Apr-26

Premixed nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia for removal of vacuum assisted closure dressing: a randomized, double-blinded… Nature.com00:06 21-Apr-26

In the last 7 days

Doctors Fueled Man's Fatal Opioid Addiction, Philly Jury Told Law36023:26 20-Apr-26

Medical Cannabis Significantly Reduced Use of Opioids and Other Rx Drugs Pain News Network23:09 20-Apr-26

The Legends Who Built Cannabis Culture Are Finally Certified. It’s Called Oakland Legendary. High Times22:55 20-Apr-26

He Spent 50 Years Fighting for Cannabis Freedom. Now He’s in an Idaho Prison Being Held for Marijuana Addiction… High Times22:45 20-Apr-26

Weed Gone Bougie? The Luxury Cannabis Products Rebranding Your High Vice (UK)22:40 20-Apr-26

Scientists Gave a Bunch of Salmon Cocaine. This Is What Happened Next. 404 Media20:46 20-Apr-26

Cannabis Day: Top 10 Weed Roundup of Budding Trends’ Trendiest Blog Posts of the Year - April 2026 JD Supra20:21 20-Apr-26

Naloxone OD Reversal Limited by Today's Opioids NewsMax20:08 20-Apr-26

Drug dealer, 19, jailed following investigation into supply of crack and heroin in Manchester Manchester Evening News19:52 20-Apr-26

New York Requires Certain Employers to Maintain Opioid Antagonists; Amendment Clarifies Scope and Timeline JD Supra19:20 20-Apr-26

U.S. Military Launches Lethal Strike in Caribbean, 3 Dead in Latest Anti-Narcotics Operation Latin Times18:56 20-Apr-26

Suspect named after being charged with cocaine supply offence in Widnes Runcorn & Widnes World, Cheshire18:53 20-Apr-26

Cocaine lorry driver caught ten times over the limit in West Fife Dunfermline Press18:38 20-Apr-26

Arrests after Kinder Surprise found to contain cocaine ITV18:18 20-Apr-26

Subcutaneous Opioids Reduce Intravenous Reliance, Maintain Pain Control in the ED Clinical Pain Advisor18:08 20-Apr-26

Long-Term US Opioid Prescription Rates Declined Between 2015 and 2023 Clinical Pain Advisor18:08 20-Apr-26

Cork teenager 'was storing cannabis to pay off a drugs debt', court told Irish Examiner17:59 20-Apr-26

Forget Cocaine Bear, Researchers Are Using Cocaine Salmon To See How Drugs Affect Animal Behaviour IFLScience17:53 20-Apr-26

Marijuana and book stores in Harvard Square Philip Greenspun's Weblog17:33 20-Apr-26

Cannabis grow discovered in Wath Rotherham Advertiser17:32 20-Apr-26

High Times Publisher Josh Kesselman Just Made the Forbes Cannabis List. It Started With a Magazine Smuggled Under His… High Times17:09 20-Apr-26

Gang jailed as Southampton drugs lab raided by police Daily Echo17:01 20-Apr-26

Drugs gang caught supplying half a million pounds of cocaine from Bournemouth lab Bournemouth Daily Echo17:00 20-Apr-26

Man forced his way into apartments after 'taking cocaine' Northern Ireland World16:57 20-Apr-26

Aspiring model and his brother imported quarter of kilo of cocaine from South America The Telegraph & Argus16:55 20-Apr-26

'Cocaine salmon' swim faster and farther than sober fish in wild drug study Daily Star16:52 20-Apr-26

Polysubstance, Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths Rose From 2004 to 2022 HealthDay16:31 20-Apr-26

Cocaine Pollution in Rivers and Lakes May Disrupt Behaviour of Salmon, Study Finds Organic Consumers Association16:28 20-Apr-26

The strange way cocaine water pollution is changing salmon Scientific American16:24 20-Apr-26

Gang who prepared half a million pounds worth of cocaine in makeshift lab jailed ITV16:20 20-Apr-26

Cocaine Fish: How Salmon Behave When Amped Up on Coke Nautilus16:13 20-Apr-26

Hospitalization Burden of Injection Drug Use-Related Infections Remains High in TN Infectious Disease Advisor16:08 20-Apr-26

Brothers caught in £3m cannabis factory raid after locals complain of smell STV16:04 20-Apr-26

Drug dealer, 21, admits supplying cannabis in Newport South Wales Argus16:03 20-Apr-26

Albanian brothers jailed over £3m cannabis factory in West Lothian BBC15:59 20-Apr-26

UK-wide cocaine conspiracy stopped as gang jailed BBC15:45 20-Apr-26

Young drug dealer had heroin, cannabis and knife in car stopped by police in Nottingham Nottinghamshire Live15:38 20-Apr-26

Bradford brothers jailed after smuggling cocaine from Colombia inside jewellery box Yorkshire Live15:38 20-Apr-26

2 U.S. Embassy officials among 4 killed in car crash after drug lab raid CBS News15:26 20-Apr-26

Drug driving motorist stopped by police twice in the space of two weeks County Times14:59 20-Apr-26

Landlord convicted after seven homes linked to cannabis factories Residential Landlord14:41 20-Apr-26

This 4/20, Remember The Cannabis Prisoners Legalization Left Behind High Times14:27 20-Apr-26

Woman caught at the wheel after taking 'dangerous cocktail' of drugs, court told Evening Leader14:02 20-Apr-26

Dealer caught sleeping beside drug phone in raid is jailed for south Essex operation Echo News13:50 20-Apr-26

Seven men jailed over UK-wide cocaine conspiracy Birmingham Live13:48 20-Apr-26

4/20 Guide: Cannabis, Music And Business Events To Get With Black Enterprise13:46 20-Apr-26

Drop in US Patients Prescribed Long-Term Opioids From 2015 to 2023 MPR13:36 20-Apr-26

Man jailed after cocaine led to mother's overdose Teignmouth Post13:10 20-Apr-26

Cocaine worth £250,000 seized from car after driver stopped on A90 STV12:59 20-Apr-26

Cyclist fined for cocaine possession Isle of Man Today12:34 20-Apr-26

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