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![Kronic shopkeepers feel the heat](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Kronic shopkeepers feel the heat
A number of dairy owners have pulled synthetic cannabis from their stores in the face of mounting public pressure.
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Synthetic cannabis rules 'welcome'
A major manufacturer of synthetic cannabis has welcomed regulation of the products and is...
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King's boys play game of their lives...
Three days after burying their mate, King's College First XV played the game of their lives to beat arch-rivals Auckland Grammar.
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School daze
How worried should parents be about teenagers' alcohol and drug use? Frances Morton went to find out.
![Drug dogs to check St Kent's ball guests](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Drug dogs to check St Kent's ball guests
The school has also hired security guards to search students at the door.
![Teen death: Kronic's role probed](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Teen death: Kronic's role probed
An investigation is under way into what role synthetic cannabis may have played in a fatal car crash.
![Justin Timberlake: 'Some people are just better high'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Justin Timberlake: 'Some people are just better high'
Justin Timberlake thinks some people are "better" on drugs.
![Darkness singer on why he quit drugs](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Darkness singer on why he quit drugs
The Darkness singer Justin Hawkins knew he had to quit drink and drugs when he wet himself on a plane.
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Prison guard jailed for corruption
Rimutaka prison guard Johan Clarke has been jailed in what is believed to be the first time a corrections officer has been convicted of corruption charges.
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Amy Winehouse's alcoholic lifestyle killing her - reports
Amy Winehouse has been told to quit drinking or die.
![<i>Shelley Bridgeman</i>: Never to be a drug mule thanks to an 'inbuilt bulls*** detector'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
<i>Shelley Bridgeman</i>: Never to be a drug mule thanks to an 'inbuilt bulls*** detector'
Sometime in the nineties my husband and I spent a few days in a farmhouse just outside Oxford, England, as guests of friends he'd made when studying at the University of Oxford years earlier. It was an idyllic, quintessentially English time