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Editorial: After decades of discriminatory enforcement, rethinking marijuana laws is long overdue

President Joe Biden has taken the first steps to move beyond more than 50 years of failed drug policy. Earlier this month, the president directed his administration to begin the process that would remove marijuana from the list of the most dangerous illicit drugs, which includes heroin and LSD, and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

County lines gang leader got girlfriend to pack heroin and crack cocaine ready to sell

The gang supplied the drugs to users in Chester from Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

Bereaved families welcome drugs law change

It's a step forward but more needs to be done say campaigners.

The Canberra Times

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Drug dealer in plot to flood Scotland with heroin and coke caught with iPhone in jail

Anthony O'Hare, caged for his leading role in a drug supply plot, admitted a charge of possessing a communication device while in prison

Daily Record

Drug decriminalisation laws passed in the ACT

The laws will come into effect in 12 months.

The Canberra Times

Pictures show how Border Force agent rumbled plot to flood Merseyside with heroin

Christopher Traynor was arrested after a package from a sender using fake alias 'Frank de Boer' was intercepted by Border Force agents

Liverpool Echo

Belfast City Council apologises after father and son met with scene of blood and needles in public toilet

Other drug paraphernalia were in the toilet block and blood was also on the floor

Belfast Live

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Scots film director using family heartbreak to help inspire people to break free from drugs

Mark MacNicol’'s brother Jason died from a heroin overdose 15 years ago, at the age of just 30 - filmmaker now launching a drama programme that will involve people in recovery

Daily Record

"It's hard to come back from that" - Warning as heroin dealing rises in Belfast city centre and Holyland

Evidence is mounting South Belfast and the city centre are becoming hotspots for heroin dealing

Belfast Live

War veteran flooded streets with heroin as he struggled to pay off his own debts

Christopher Traynor was arrested after a package from 'Frank de Boer' was intercepted by Border Force agents

Liverpool Echo

Drug dealer's dog bit schoolboy and left him scarred for life

Unsupervised American bulldog Rio escaped from back garden and also sunk its teeth into man's thigh

Liverpool Echo

Kanye West hits out at ‘heroin addict’ Pete Davidson and says Trevor Noah ‘isn’t even from America, he just looks Black’

Rapper accused of ‘open antisemitism’ after taking aim at ‘Jewish Zionists’

The Independent UK

Taiwan-bound 'durian' turns out to be heroin

Customs officials say they have intercepted over 7 kilogrammes of heroin allegedly bound for Taiwan as part of a joint programme with international logistics agencies.

Bangkok Post

Recovering Leeds drug addicts 'sick of' junkies smoking crack in their street and begging them for cash

Simon and Sarah Scott kicked their heroin addiction but can't escape the addicts who light up and beg for drug money outside their house

Leeds Live

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Daily Record

Warning issued over "dangerously strong" batch of heroin on sale in Dumfries and Galloway

The NHS Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service became aware of it after “repeated medical interventions” in the Dumfries area

Chronicle Live

Dozy Elswick dealers caught after falling asleep in car with half a kilo of heroin

Shambolic Neil Coates and Vikki Hoyland are behind bars after attracting attention to themselves by dozing off with the engine running

Liverpool Echo

List of 36 suspected criminals named in county lines drug dealing crackdown

Cocaine valued at around £69,000 as well as £27,000 in cash has also been seized

Liverpool Echo

'Drug ring' flooding streets with heroin and cocaine busted

Three men and two women from Liverpool were arrested as police raided homes across the country

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Liverpool Echo

Dealer who supplied crack cocaine and heroin caught in police raid

A man has been charged with the supply of crack cocaine and heroin

Liverpool Echo

Suspect named after crack and heroin found in stop check

The suspect was due to appear in court on Wednesday after being stopped on foot

Evening Standard

Rapper Alieu ‘PS Hitsquad’ Koroma sentenced to five years for county lines drug supply

A rapper who used a 14-year-old as a drugs runner for ‘county lines’ supply of crack cocaine and heroin has been ordered to serve more than five years in prison.

Liverpool Echo

Drug debt dad told dealer he wanted out and got a beating

Chris Mogan ran up a drug debt and was "pressured" into directing a trafficking ring

Irish Mirror

Woman who stashed drug dealing boyfriend's heroin and crack cocaine in vagina walks free from court

Brooke Morgan said she agreed to stash her then boyfriend Ryan Leonard's drugs after being subjected to domestic violence

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss rejects making cannabis a Class A drug - despite her Home Secretary

Sources claimed Home Secretary Suella Braverman was in favour of making cannabis a Class A drug like cocaine, ecstasy and heroin - which could have landed people seven years' jail for possession

Daily Mirror

Woman stashed drug dealing boyfriend's heroin and crack cocaine inside her

Pregnant Brooke Morgan told court she agreed to accompany Ryan Leonard on his supply missions after being subjected to domestic violence at his hands

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