Drugs

Festival drug-checking services will now receive government funding

Lockdown can mean riskier drug use. Here's some advice to handle that

‘I didn’t want sex without drugs, and I used drugs to find sex’

From nangs to comedowns, here's 10 stories about drugs

I started one of NZ’s first Discord drug servers at 18

Talking to a dark web drug dealer who got caught

Two people who need medicinal cannabis: one legally, one on the black market | Side by Side

How microdosing mushrooms can help mental health

What if we decriminalised all drugs | Let Me Explain

Comedowns are the worst, but they don’t have to be

Talking to the brave people who asked their dealers for refunds

The FBI made an app that tricked thousands of drug dealers around the world, including NZ

'Cannabis sommelier' is an actual job. Here's what they do.

Nangs to the door: the curious rise of NZ’s ‘whipped cream’ industry

Drug laws need to be scrapped, say advocacy groups

Why the US Drug Enforcement agency is coming to Aotearoa

Pill testing doesn’t make you any more likely to take drugs, research finds

40 percent of MDMA in NZ this summer was actually cathinones

Drug checking will be made legal in NZ in time for festivals this summer

Why people are taking the 'date rape' drug

Stoners tell us why they smoke and how legalising might impact them

A weed dealer on the constant threat of violence that comes with the job

A majority of NZers say they will vote to keep weed illegal

Explainer: the cannabis referendum that could make weed legal in New Zealand

Revisiting New Zealand's illegal weed club

How are New Zealanders going to get high during lockdown?

An ambulance driver tells us what he sees at a drug-related crash

A cop tells us about the crashes she can't forget

How one woman is fighting meth in small-town New Zealand

It’s now legal for New Zealand companies to produce medicinal cannabis