All news on the topic: Drugs

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Britain's Got Talent mum says she went to prison for £6,000 cannabis stash
Claire Connolly posed as a hopeful on the talent show to get her daughter to audition, and then opened up about going to prison over a £6,000 stash of cannabis before her daughter wowed the judges
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'Grim' town which 'smells of cannabis' leaves locals scared to go out at night
Residents of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire have mixed feelings about their town, with some feeling positive about the investment made in the centre, while others fear it is 'struggling' and is 'dead'
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Glamour wives of drug twins who took down El Chapo to be jailed
The wives of twin brothers who helped to bring down El Chapo when they informed on him are to be jailed. Vivianna Lopez, 42, and Valerie Gaytan, wives of Pedro and Margarito Flores, admitted to money laundering
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Cannabis-laced lollipops in packaging 'appealing to kids' found on sale for 40p
The Pure Cannabis Lollipops with hemp oil and bubblegum were advertised with cannabis weed leaves on the box and found in a shop in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire
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Teen girl vanishes in Mexican cartel hotspot as urgent 'Amber Alert' issued
US citizen Shelbie Lynn Dwyer, 17, disappeared in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The State Attorney General's Office said that she may "have fallen victim to a crime"
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Notorious drug lord's niece killed after car she was driving ploughed into tree
Keana Mokbel, 25, whose uncle Tony Mokbel is serving 30 years on drugs charges, died when her vehicle ploughed into a tree in Heidelberg West, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia at around 8.50pm on Sunday
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Luxury-loving drug dealer snared by police after speeding as her empire crumbles
The game was up for promising engineer Danielle Stafford when her mobile phone went off with 30 phone calls and 20 drug-related text messages while she was being grilled by police for speeding
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Three women found with throats slit on beach trip 'weren't linked to cartel'
Model Nayeli Tapia, 22, singer Yuliana Macias, 21, and student Denisse Reyna, 19, were found in the bottom of a shallow burial pit on the banks of a river near Quininde, Ecuador, by local fishermen in early April
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Young dad died after making almost 100 calls for help to emergency services
In one of the 98 calls placed to emergency services in a space of six months before he died, Thomas Owens, told police there was a man with a gun outside his flat
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Vapes with as much nicotine as 100 cigarettes sold illegally to girl, 13, in day
Nearly half of shops sampled in a Mirror investigation sold a teenager a clutch of vapes containing large amounts of nicotine
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Notorious drug kingpin El Chapo's sons 'fed people alive to tigers'
Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 37, and Ivan Guzman Salazar, 40, are said to front the Sinaloa cartel with 'El Chapo' Joaquín Guzmán himself in prison for life
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Woman who felt like cutting legs off with chainsaw 'cures pain with cannabis'
Alexandra Fisher, 51, had been part-time sport coach before a pair of devastating conditions left her left reliant on a wheelchair - but says a cannabis vape has helped her regain her mobility
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Cheetos laced with drugs and 'sold to kids' as cops raid address and arrest man
West Midlands Police raided a property in the Black Country seizing bags of Cheetos which were allegedly being spiked with drugs and sold to under-18s
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Mum fuming as packet of 'ecstasy pills' falls out of 13-year-old son's new jeans
Natalie Payne bought the £115.99 jeans for her 13-year-old son's birthday from Flannels, but when he unwrapped them a packet of suspicious blue pills fell out of the pocket
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Major supermarket quits city as tech star murder exposes drugs and crime crisis
Whole Foods opened a store in March 2022 in San Francisco, US, but months later reduced their opening hours after 'high theft' - the closure comes just weeks after Cash App founder and tech superstar Bob Lee was killed in the city
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Harry could still get US citizenship despite book drug confessions, says lawyer
Prince Harry revealed in his 'Spare' memoir he had taken marijuana, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms and cocaine which it was claimed this week could stop him from gaining US citizenship or a Green Card
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Man goes missing after bragging about stealing $50,000 from fearsome drug cartel
Erik Tadeo Ramirez, from Texas, US, bragged about stealing $50,000 from the Cartel del Noreste - less than two hours later he was kidnapped by a group of armed men from his home
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Mum who 'self-medicates' with cannabis is given dressing down by judge
Kayley Baker, 35, was found with 1g of cannabis in her home during a drug bust by police at her home in Anfield, Liverpool, last year, and claimed she used it to calm her anxiety
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Gino D'Acampo shares cheeky post after police 'find cannabis in his luggage'
This Morning chef Gino D’Acampo has returned to social media after he was allegedly caught with cannabis in his belongings upon arriving at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire
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Students more likely to use narcotics than alcohol to cope with mental health
Pressures of studying during the cost of living crisis are getting to students as three quarters turn to drugs and alcohol to self medicate and relieve mental health struggles, a new study shows
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Dad dies after swallowing cocaine as he snorted so much drugs his nose collapsed
Dad-of-two Adam Price from Barrow, Cumbria, had resorted to swallowing cocaine after a hole developed in his septum due to his struggles with the drug, an inquest heard
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Mum found with 147 wraps of cocaine freed after it took two years to charge her
Mum Sian Finneywas caught "red handed" in February 2020 after police searched her home and seized 147 wraps of cocaine, along with scales, cash and mobile phones
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Mum, 29, accidentally overdoses on fentanyl with 4 others in workplace car park
Michelle Kerry Edoo, 29, from New Jersey, US, was found unconscious at Riverside shopping centre's car park after she indadvertedly overdosed on cocaine filled with fentanyl
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Everton star dubbed "Goodison Gazza" retired at 21 and lost 25 years to cocaine
Billy Kenny won the man of the match award in the Premier League's first Merseyside derby before depression and addiction took hold and ruined 25 years of his life
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Gold bars worth more than £4m 'belonging to cocaine cartels' seized at Heathrow
Huge gold bars and cylinders weighing more than 16 stone were seized by Border Force at Heathrow Airport, which were believed to belong to South American drug cartels