Drugs
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- WA election
Labor candidate counselled over ‘take drugs, not advice’ posts
An aspiring MP says she “no longer holds” the same views on illicit drugs that she posted to social media between 2012 and 2015, including that a “life lived without experiencing LSD is a life wasted”.
- Connor McGoverne
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- Editorial
- Editorial
Long-overdue pill testing trial a welcome start
Other Australian jurisdictions are already looking beyond festivals as the best place to provide drug-checking services.
- The Herald's View
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- Crime
‘That can look suspicious’: how a drug smuggler came undone
Saddled with a $450,000 debt and a serious addiction to gambling, Jae Young Choi was in trouble.
- Sally Rawsthorne
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- Music festivals
First NSW music festival to allow pill testing revealed
The announcement marks a major win for drug reform advocates who have long called for pill testing in the state.
- Michael McGowan
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- AFL 2025
‘We won’t be accepting that’: AFL’s proposal for strict new drugs code revealed
The AFLPA boss said the union would refuse to accept a new drug code regime of immediate fines. Also, players testing positive wouldn’t place their anonymity at risk.
- Caroline Wilson
- Investigation
- Crime
The luxury retreat for men accused of grievous crimes
In a sleepy corner of a fashionable NSW town, accused criminals chill out in the spa, cool off in the pool, and relax over a game of tennis.
- Jordan Baker, Perry Duffin and Amber Schultz
‘I’m just a seeker’: The Sydney mum who spent a year sampling psychedelics
Sarah Napthali lowers her voice over lunch when our conversation veers to the names of the drugs she used: LSD, MDMA, ketamine, DMT, bufo (toad poison) and the rest.
- Jordan Baker
How drug labs in China fuel Trump’s global trade war
The Wuhan company didn’t bother with the dark web. It spruiked its goods right in the open, showing mounds of white powder that were available in a “Mexico hot sale″.
- Lisa Visentin
A $250,000 playground was installed in Footscray’s mall. It backfired
Nicholson Street is one of Australia’s oldest pedestrian malls. But traders say it was the wrong move in 2023 to install a playground because it became a magnet for antisocial behaviour.
- Sophie Aubrey
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- Crime
Cocaine smugglers use dangerous new tactic to infiltrate Sydney
Federal police fear a novel cocaine importation tactic will end with gangsters killing security guards to secure the illegal drugs in Sydney.
- Perry Duffin
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