Woman Charged Over Alleged $3 Million Clandestine Lab Sourcing Role
A 59-year-old woman has been refused bail after being arrested by State Crime Command detectives and charged for her alleged involvement in a $3 million drug manufacturing syndicate operating in the Port Stephens area. The arrest follows a long-running investigation...
Illicit Drug Use Is Spiking, Yet NSW Authorities Continue Deadly and Performative Approach
The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program released its latest figures for the period December 2024 to October 2025, and in its ninth year, it found there has been a significant spike in illicit drug use in this country, in terms...
Social Media Giants are Deleting Lifesaving Drug Warnings: Interview with AIVL’s Molly Howes
Social media companies, like Meta and TikTok, have been removing the drug warning alerts that local harm reduction organisations have been posting on their social media pages, despite the fact that these are warnings about bad batches of illicit substances,...
“Hey Commissioner, Stop Running Drug Dogs Through Pubs and Clubs”, Demand NSW Greens
New South Wales Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann quizzed NSW police commissioner Mal Lanyon on the practice of running drug dogs through bars in Sydney. And as the local member pointed out to the top cop, during a 27 February 2026...
The Criminal Offence of Supplying a Prohibited Drug in New South Wales
At 5pm on Wednesday, 31 December 2025, NSW police officers from the New England Police District, executed a search warrant on Gomeroi land at a property on Hall Street, in the small New South Wales town of Gilgai. This raid...
Colombia Is Leading Progressive Drug Law Reform: Interview with Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann
Speaking at a recent cannabis symposium at Sydney University, NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann told the crowd that she’d attended the 2025 Harm Reduction International Conference held in Bogota, Colombia, and the proposals being tossed about at that forum pretty...
Trump and Hegseth Have Been Mass Murdering Foreign Nationals in the Caribbean
Over the 2 September to 15 November 2025, the US Trump administration has killed at least 83 foreign nationals in boats, which involved military strikes upon 22 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast...
Increasingly Authoritarian Governments Favour Failed Drug War Tactics
Recent months have seen the US Trump administration illegally killing foreign nationals in boats off the coast of Venezuela, while in NSW, the Minns government recently announced that it wouldn’t end the police use of drug dogs and strip searches...
Ending Global Cannabis Prohibition Is Inevitable, According to Sydney Uni Symposium
Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge suggested an “ethical discussion” that should be had in this country involves the ongoing criminalisation of the personal possession of drugs, and in particular, the cannabis plant, at a symposium held at Sydney University last...
Landlords to Face Prison for Permitting Use of Premises for Illegal Vape or Tobacco Sales
The New South Wales government introduced new laws which could see commercial property owners facing a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison and/or a fine of up to $165,000 for knowingly permitting a tenant to supply illicit tobacco and/or...
