Tag: drugs

Addicts can be sentenced to treatment

Norway's conservative minority government, with support from most all other parties in Parliament, is making it possible for courts to sentence drug-addicted convicts to treatment...

Police officer ‘shocked’ by indictment

UPDATED: Eirik Jensen, formerly one of the Oslo Police District's most high-profile investigators and top officers, says he's "shocked" that he's been indicted for...

‘Hash baron’s’ trial gets underway

Norwegian drug dealer Gjermund Cappelen admitted in a local court this week that he smuggled as much as 30 tons of hash into the...

‘Hash baron’ admits to drug smuggling

A 46-year-old Norwegian living in the affluent Oslo suburb of Bærum has admitted to smuggling 100 shipments of hash into Norway over the last...

Nine jailed after crackdown on crime

Not only was a former member of the NOKAS robbery gang back in prison this week, so were eight other men after police carried...

NOKAS convict arrested again

Several suspects with lengthy criminal records, including one who recently was released from prison after serving time in the huge NOKAS heist 11 years ago,...

22 arrested in drug raids

By the time police had completed a major, coordinated drug raid on Thursday, 22 people were under arrest including 17 men and five women...

Stoltenberg family lays Nini to rest

She was the sister of a Norwegian prime minister and the daughter of one of the country's former defense ministers and foreign ministers. Nini Stoltenberg...

Nini Stoltenberg dead at 51

UPDATED: She battled drug addiction for years and then illness. On Sunday, Nini Stoltenberg, the youngest member of one of Norway's most high-profile and politically active families,...

Majority opposes legalizing cannabis

A vast majority of Norwegians, just over 80 percent, oppose any law change aimed at legalizing hash and marijuana in Norway. A new public opinion poll...
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