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New law tightens penalties in drug crimes

STAFF REPORTERMUSCAT, SEPT 6The Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances promulgated by Royal Decree No (67/2026) provides for severe punishments for the violato...

New law tightens penalties in drug crimes

MUSCAT: The Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances promulgated by Royal Decree No (67/2026) provides for severe punishments for the violators including the dea...

 Are our drug laws making things worse?

A B.C. Supreme Court judge found that a section of Canada’s Controlled Drug and Substances Act was unconstitutional, and gave Ottawa six months to fix it.  The ruling came after a...

Tanzanian Proposes Amendments to the Drugs Control and Enforcement Act

[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE Tanzanian government has proposed amendments to the Drugs Control and Enforcement Act that would broaden the scope of offences related to the possession...

Fiji's prosecutions office defends drug disposal protocols after cocaine turns to flour

Fiji's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has issued a defensive statement clarifying its role in managing drug exhibits.

B.C. judge drops drug charges against Vancouver compassion club, declares law illegal

Supreme Court ruling is put on hold for six months to allow federal government to change Controlled Drug and Substance Act, which it ruled is unconstitutional because it prevents d...

Oman toughens drug penalties, expands regulatory oversight

MUSCAT: Oman’s Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances increases fines and prison terms for certain offences and widens regulatory oversight to cover chemical p...

KSh8.2B Meth Destroyed as DPP Ingonga Targets Drug Traffickers’ Financiers

Director of Public Prosecutions Renson Ingonga has called for an intensified crackdown on criminal networks behind narcotics trafficking, warning that seizing drugs and arresting c...

Drug dealers handed stiff sentences

TAPIWA CHIRUME THREE people have been convicted in separate drug-related cases in Harare, with two men jailed for six years over dagga possession and a woman sentenced for dealing...

Narcotic drug offences: Bail can be denied even after one year of incarceration, says Madras HC

Justice N. Ramesh said the long period of judicial custody will not outweigh the bar imposed on granting bail under Section 37 of the NDPS Act

Drug abuse among Malaysian under-15s a growing concern, says Saifuddin Nasution

MACHANG, Oct 17 — The trend of drug abuse among those under the age of 15 is increasingly concerning and requires...

Six charged with trafficking 659g of MDMA in Tawau homestay raid

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 — Six individuals, including three women, were brought before the Magistrates’ Court in...

DRI Seizes Around 18 Kg Of Amphetamine, MDMA In Bengaluru, Pune; 4 Arrested

The DRI seized suspected amphetamine and MDMA in Bengaluru and Pune, with four people arrested in separate operations on Aug. 25.

Official reaffirms drug prevention policy

Three separate drug busts net RM3.44m in drugs, five arrests in Penang

GEORGE TOWN, Oct 1 — Penang police arrested five people, including a couple, and seized various types of drugs wor...

DEC seizes over 100kg of drugs, nabs 24

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Spurious Drugs: Karnataka FDA Cancels 16 Drug Licences of Retailers, Wholesalers

Officials said spurious drugs, machinery and printing materials valued at around Rs 5.05 crore were seized during the raid, with the inventory of seized materials estimated at Rs 4...

Malaysian couriers face possible death penalty over $808,000 sedative pill haul at Kuching airport

Two Malaysian men could face the death penalty after police caught them with 32.73 kg of Erimin 5 pills worth RM3.3 million (US$808,000) at Kuching International Airport.

Arrests of drug smugglers, manufacturers rise 33.8% this year: police

The number of people arrested for drug smuggling and manufacturing rose more than 30 percent in the first eight months of this year from a year earlier, police said Monday. The Nat...

ZRP Boss Issues Stark Warning To Police Officers Taking Drugs

Mutamba Warns Drug-Using Police Officers Over Their Jobs Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Stephen Mutamba has warned police officers taking drugs that they could...

In Johor, Indonesian teen charged with trafficking over 25kg of illicit drugs

KLUANG, Sept 25 — A 19-year-old Indonesian male teenager was charged at the Magistrates’ Court here today wi...

Drug fight stepped up

Brighton MuronzereyiCHIEF WRITER AUTHORITIES are stepping up efforts to combat drug and substance abuse through the training of provincial committees tasked with coordinating the n...

‘Stop your poison or face the noose’… govt threatens to reinstate death penalty to combat drug lords

 Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR THE government may be forced to consider reinstating the death pen­alty in the country down the road if life imprisonment is enacted but still fai...

Cocaine-for-flour swap could threaten drug prosecution, Fiji lawyer says

A Nadi-based lawyer says the disappearance of nearly 40kg of cocaine from a Fiji High Court evidence vault could complicate the criminal case for which the drugs were seized.