A 70-year-old pharmacist jailed this week for his role in supplying gangs with pseudoephedrine still believes he was part of an undercover police operation.

A new wave of legal party pills has hit Whangarei secondary schools, with two parents asked to take their teens home after they arrived for class high.

A pilot fighting to get his job back after being sacked amid allegations of alcohol and drug abuse worked for Pacific Blue.

The War on Drugs makes the Afghan campaign seem like a blitzkrieg akin to 1967 when Israel cleaned up Egypt, Syria and Jordan in six days and rested on the seventh.

Rodney Hide has emphatically denied in Parliament ever suggesting to another minister that Heather Roy had used drugs.

Police displayed weapons and drugs, including two "unusually large" rocks of crystal meth, from a bust on a Coromandel P lab.

Police this morning busted a P-lab in Auckland, a day after nationwide raids which netted 140g of the drug, as well as guns and a crossbow.

Police say some major players "are now out of the drug industry" after a nationwide P bust that was six months in the making.

Police have uncovered a P lab in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby.