An online survey of 1200 Kiwi drug users shows one in four drove after taking cannabis in the last year.

The number of cannabis plants destroyed by police has hit a 10-year high.

Millie Elder was with Connor Morris when police stopped Morris and allegedly found methamphetamine and a glass pipe.

In a Drug Foundation survey of 1200 Kiwis, 24.5 per cent said they had driven after taking cannabis in the last year.

A major police raid in the Waikato discovered large amounts of guns and drugs, as an eight-month operation came to a climax.

Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation centre, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in Mexico. Photo / AP

The man behind a new website that names and shames bad debtors has been revealed as a convicted money launderer.

A controversial new law decriminalising the possession of small amounts of heroin, marijuana, cocaine and other illicit substances has quietly slipped on to the statute books in Mexico.