The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) has called on Britain to follow Canada and parts of the United States and decriminalise the Class B drug. The report – called Joint
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A woman who murdered her step-grandfather on Christmas Day by beating him with his own walking stick and stabbing him more than 120 times has been told she will serve
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Two teenagers have been jailed over the fatal stabbing of a youth worker who confronted a group of drug dealers outside his home. Omid Saidy (pictured) was knifed in the
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Most students have not used drugs during their time at university and more think excessive alcohol consumption is a bigger issue, a new study suggests. The survey also found that
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The prevalence of recent cocaine use among young adults in England and Wales is the highest in Europe, a study from the EU’s drug monitoring agency suggests. Analysis cited 2016
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A police custody officer failed to carry out half-hourly checks on a man in custody who later died in his cell, investigators concluded. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
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Leading nurses warn that the Spice epidemic sweeping British prisons is putting nursing staff at risk. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which is holding its annual congress in Belfast,
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Drug gangs are “regularly taking over the homes” of the vulnerable and mentally ill to use as a base for their nefarious activities, ministers have heard. Tory MP Gillian Keegan
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Releasing more prisoners on temporary licence could help tackle the drugs crisis in jails, a new report suggests. The scheme does not feel like a real possibility to most inmates,
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A juror who accepted a bribe has been jailed for six years in the first prosecution of its kind in Scotland. Catherine Leahy, 62, served on a jury in a
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