Cocaine News

“Rob Ford might be a genius – if not of the academic variety, certainly of the kind that matters in politics,” Robyn Doolittle writes in “Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story,” her bestselling account of the notorious Toronto mayor's career.

To add to the harm that cocaine can cause, a new study reports that use of the drug among young people can considerably increase their risk of suffering from a stroke.

Italy's constitutional court has declared a law that tripled sentences for selling, cultivating and possessing cannabis "illegitimate" and has overturned it. Antigone, a prison rights group, say the law has caused prison overcrowding.

Toronto - Toronto Mayor, and sometime figure of fun, Mayor Rob Ford is back in the news after ABC's Jimmy Kimmel posted footage on his live show of a bunch of Toronto councillors getting into the Christmas spirit, enjoying an impromptu dance.

Spanish police arrested three people, including two French crew members from a yacht approximately 550 nautical miles from Spain's Canary Islands and one Spaniard on land. In the process they also seized 550 kilos (1,200 pounds) of cocaine.

Tarragona - Officers with the National Police in Tarragona, Spain have dismantled a massive cocaine lab, capable of producing around 20 kilos of the drug weekly. This is the largest laboratory ever found in Spain.

New London - Are Oreos as addictive as heroin or cocaine? A new study by a team of undergraduate researchers is creating controversy.

Toronto - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted today to media questioning that he has smoked crack cocaine, adding, "[It was] probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably about a year ago." He later told reporters he would continue serving as Toronto's mayor.

On Monday a Florida public works office was evacuated after a man went to pay his water bill with an envelope that contained crack cocaine.

Paris - The Air France flight was traveling from Paris to Zurich with the gold on board. Around 44 kilos of gold bars, worth €1.5m, are believed to have disappeared from the plane's hold.