Six people were arrested by police in Northern Ireland today during a planned anti-drug operation in the north of the province.

The arrests were made in the Coleraine, Co Londonderry and Bushmills, Co Antrim areas when a number of searches were carried out last night and in the early hours of the morning.

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Police have seized cannabis plants worth in excess of £500,000 in raids on two rented houses which they said had been turned into "cannabis factories".

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The PSNI has scrapped its Drug Squad and merged it with its Organised Crime Branch in a move that Malachi O'Doherty argues could help properly address our drug problem

One theory of how we should police drug use says we shouldn't bother. More lives would be saved if all dangerous drugs were legalised. That would take the profits out of the hands of gangsters and smugglers.

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Suspected drugs have been found by police after a car drove through a checkpoint in north Belfast.

Police said they were carrying out a routine check of cars on North Queen Street on Friday night when a Toyota Starlet ran through the checkpoint.

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THREE people were arrested during a pre-planned anti-drugs operation in Co Armagh yesterday.  Quantities of Ecstasy and cannabis were seized during raids on a series of properties in Lurgan and Portadown mounted by the Tactical Crime Unit.

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