A 60-YEAR-OLD man, who grew thousands of pounds worth of cannabis in his home, escaped a jail sentence yesterday after he was found to be growing the plant out of an interest in horticulture.
A COLLEGE for former drug addicts is hoping for a lifeline after a chance meeting between one of its success stories and Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson.
IT WAS 7pm on a Wednesday night in The Grape in Edinburgh's George Street and Katy, a 24-year-old educated, professional woman, was inhaling the fumes from her gin and breathing a sigh of relief.
TALEBAN fighters have formed an alliance with drug smugglers in the lawless Afghan province of Helmand, months ahead of a large, politically sensitive British troop deployment.
Drug agency chief hits out as Executive axes funds
THE director of Scotland Against Drugs (SAD) has voiced fears that the Executive's drugs strategy will become little more than a "finger wagging" to children.
THE number of drug addicts taking methadone in the Lothians has soared with those receiving prescriptions for the heroin-substitute up by more than 40 per cent in three years.
A FEW hours north of Bolivia's capital of La Paz, a nearly impassable dirt road runs along the edge of cliffs covered in a thick jungle canopy. It is difficult to imagine that this little-known Yungas region has become South America's latest drugs...