Canadian government funds crackdown on drug-driving in Ontario
The Canadian government has stated that it will invest $17m (£15.4) in several programs in the province of Ontario to combat drug-driving. This initiative is included in the government’s commitment to spend $81m (£46.2) in support of road safety actions throughout the country. Bill Blair, the Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, said
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Denver first US city to decriminalise ‘magic mushrooms’
Denver is about to become the first US city to effectively decriminalise magic mushrooms, according to the final unofficial tally of votes on the ballot initiative on the hallucinogenic drug, held on Wednesday, 8 May. The initiative called for no longer imposing criminal penalties for people at least 21 years old for possessing or using
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Schools in Eastern Alabama now stocking opioid overdose drug
The Auburn City and Lee County School Systems in the east of the US state of Alabama can now administer Naloxone to their students. Naloxone is a drug that reverses the effects of overdosing on opioids if administered promptly. The US is in the midst of an opioid addiction epidemic, with people abusing both illegal
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Clampdown on ‘cuckooing’ drugs expanded in Scotland
Police Scotland has extended its clampdown on illegal drug dealers who use vulnerable people to supply drugs for them. Called 'cuckooing,' it describes the practice of drug dealers commandeering people’s homes in exchange for supplying them with drugs. The police had been clamping down on the practice in two towns in Aberdeenshire - Fraserburgh, and
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