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Two men were charged with possession of a total of $550,000 worth of drugs yesterday. Charles Butterfield, 33, was charged in Magistrates’ Court with possession of cannabis and cannabis resin with intent to supply on December 20, 2019, in St George’s...

I don’t smoke anything and I have no prejudice for those who do. For me, it was perhaps a degree of fate that prevented me from being a smoker. I, just like so many schoolboys back in the Sixties, sneaked away to have a draw on what was then a new m...

An American cruise ship passenger was fined $3,000 after he admitted two drug importation charges. Frederick Hall Jr, 50, pleaded guilty to the importation of cannabis and THC, a psychoactive component of cannabis. Magistrates’ Court heard that custo...

A New Jersey man was fined $16,000 after he offered to pay off a customs officer who found drugs on him. Paul Rodrigues, who is understood to be a prison guard in the United States, admitted having a quantity of tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingre...

A Bermudian tattoo artist will be sentenced in Jamaica this week for attempting to smuggle 42lb of cannabis into Britain. Zharrin Simmons, 27, was arrested at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on the afternoon of May 28 as s...

A Warwick man admitted handling more than $290,000 of drugs with intent to supply. Luri Scott, 24, pleaded guilty at Supreme Court on Tuesday to handling cannabis, cannabis resin and tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in cannabis, at his hom...

A man has denied two counts of drug possession. Taureem O’Connor, 27, from Hamilton Parish, pleaded not guilty to having 14.19 grams of cannabis resin and 27.43 grams of cannabis on December 28 last year. Magistrates’ Court heard that the alleged ...

The imprisonment of a man for 2½ years while he awaits trial on a drugs charge is unconstitutional, a lawyer told Supreme Court yesterday. Mark Pettingill, who appeared for plaintiff Dennis Robinson, told the Supreme Court that Mr Robinson’s fundame...

Medical cannabis will come under the spotlight at an information session today. Debra Kimless, an anaesthesiologist and chief medical director for Maryland-based medical cannabis grower ForwardGro, will discuss medical uses for the drug at a free eve...

A man has denied possession of more than $150,000 worth of drugs. Shaki Simmons, 34, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to two counts of possession of cannabis and one count of possession of THC oil with intent to supply. It was alleg...

A cannabis researcher and doctor will outline the use of medical cannabis to medical professionals in Bermuda next week. Mark Ware, the chief medical officer at Canadian medical cannabis grower Canopy Growth, said he planned to give a balanced presen...

A social inquiry report was ordered on a teenager caught in possession of cannabis with intent to supply. Jah’Dimon Parkes, 17, admitted the offence at Magistrates’ Court this week. The court heard that Parkes, from Pembroke, was arrested in the par...