The model for dealing with the problem has not reduced demand or supply, so we should go way of some US states, writes Alexander Gillespie.

Drug-detecting dogs are running through the hallways, reception areas and carparks of Parnell's The Mirage apartments.

More than $2 million of methamphetamine and cash has been seized and five people arrested after a joint operation between Wellington police and NZ Customs.

A Nigerian football player accused of being a cocaine smuggling boss says money wired to him through Western Union were for football transfers.

Lithuanian national Rokas Karpavicius has been found guilty of importing an LSD-laden Harry Potter book into New Zealand and money laundering

Tougher sentences are on the way for criminals who cook up methamphetamine in homes where children are present.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted Wednesday that he has smoked a lot of marijuana.

Two British women have been detained in Peru after allegedly being caught trying to fly out of Lima airport with cocaine worth up to £1.5 million ($2.9 million).

Residents and shopkeepers in Greenmeadows, Hawkes Bay, have banded together to swiftly shut down a new store selling synthetic cannabis.

A drug kingpin has been jailed for at least five years for masterminding a "sophisticated" multi-million dollar drug importation business.

The minister overseeing new restrictions on legal highs has slammed "smarter than the law" rogue traders who have been caught out trying to sell products illegally.

When Brett Heginbotham found himself in a police cell, being told he had just robbed a dairy at gunpoint, he knew his addiction to legal highs had reached its lowest ebb.

Hundreds of protesters rallied around New Zealand today opposing a law that allows testing of party pills on animals.

Thousands of people are visiting a Facebook page that details where police checkpoints and hidden speed cameras are located nationwide.

A year after Auckland Mayor Len Brown promised to crack down on central city alcohol issues, booze-related assaults are "bog standard".

Police warn they will be proactive in cracking down on newly banned drugs under a law which came into effect at midnight.

An Auckland man has appeared in court in Brisbane today charged with trafficking synthetic cannabis into Australia.

Dairy owners are discounting legal highs as they scramble to clear their stocks ahead of looming new restrictions.

Two champion weightlifting brothers face serious drugs charges - including the alleged supply of a new "designer drug" not cleared for human consumption.

A new generation of legal highs could be hitting shelves as early as this summer, despite a bill that puts the onus of safety on manufacturers.

Police have uncovered a major cannabis cultivating operation in an Auckland industrial area and say the plants could have fetched up to $1 million.

It is that time of year when a bunch of skinny, obsessed men don lycra and cycle madly all over France for 21 days, in an attempt to be the one standing atop the podium in Paris.

Eminem says his addiction to prescription drugs left him with near-organ failure.

One in every eight patients admitted to an acute psychiatric unit had been using the synthetic cannabis K2, an audit published today has found.