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

Almost half of firms surveyed by a leading employers' group have reported sacking staff for drug use.

A new ad campaign is targeting "sensible stoners" who falsely believe smoking cannabis makes them more focused behind the wheel.

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.

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.

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".

A rented house has been demolished and a layer of topsoil removed from its section because the property was so badly contaminated by a secret P lab.

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.

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.

Fresh charges of corruption and bribery have been laid against former police officer Peter Pakau, who is alleged to have organised drug runs and tipped of gangsters.

A charity set up to combat methamphetamine use and fronted by the Sir Paul Holmes before he died has stopped operating after failing to raise enough funds.

Fred was in his mid-20s when a car accident on a busy Auckland road left him with serious injuries that would require months of rehabilitation.

Recreational steroid use by New Zealanders has been described as a "huge elephant in the room" by a leading voice in the fight against doping.

Kris McKenzie loved his puppy, Oden. One day, inexplicably, Kris flew into a rage, grabbed Oden and threw him into a wall.

A student drug dealer who was "given a chance" by a judge is on the run after more than $100,000 was found in his wardrobe.