Cocaine use in France has nearly doubled, with 1.1 million people having taken the drug at least once in 2023, according to a study published on Wednesday.
France’s Economy Minister has praised the work of Bordeaux law officers, after they seized more than 2.4 tonnes of cannabis resin with an estimated street value in excess of €19 million.
Paris police have dismantled a camp that is home to over 100 crack users, the latest move in a campaign that has repeatedly displaced the addicts around the capital.
France’s highest administrative court has temporarily overturned a ban on the sale of cannabidiol (CBD) flowers and leaves in France, less than a month after it was introduced by the government. This is just the latest stage in France’s convoluted history with cannabis.
Crack and other drug users who had been allowed to spend days and nights in a park in northeastern Paris, causing an uproar among local residents, have been blocked from the site by Paris authorites.
France's Europe minister on Monday called for "total transparency" over speculation that one of Italy's victorious Eurovision contestants used cocaine during the song contest, saying it should be grounds for disqualification if confirmed.
France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has promised action to move on crack dealers and users that have long blighted a part of northern Paris - but the solution is as unpalatable as the problem to some residents.
French police will start hitting users of illicit drugs, especially cannabis, with on-the-spot fines starting in
September, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.
A French court on Friday sentenced seven people implicated in a drug smuggling operation to up to 18 years in prison each with two ex-air force pilots getting six-year terms.
A new study reveals where in France young people are smoking the most cannabis, drinking the most alcohol and puffing the most cigarettes... and there's a big difference in habits between the north and south. And what does this say about young people in Brittany?
A Frenchman who served 18 years in custody for smuggling drugs into Bali was deported Saturday in a case that sparked outrage in France over Indonesia's tough narcotics laws.
French police said Friday that they had smashed a major drug trafficking ring in the southern city of Marseille, a key hub in the trans-Mediterranean cannabis and cocaine trade where several people are killed each year in turf wars.
Most children's medication that you can buy over the counter is either useless and could even be dangerous for their health, a study by a French consumer group has concluded.
Grass Domestic Product: France has said that it will start including the money spent on illicit drugs when calculating its gross domestic product, a statistical shot in the arm for the country's economy.
The French government announced on Thursday that it will slash fines on those caught smoking pot, despite cannabis use being on the rise in the country. Their aim is to lessen the work load on the overburdened police and the justice system.
France's fight against cannabis, through tough
laws to punish users, has long been a failure -- the French remain among Europe's biggest dope smokers. So will a change of strategy under President Emmanuel Macron have more success?
Thirteen people went on trial near Paris on Thursday suspected of concealing huge quantities of cocaine in "narco-torpedos" -- bullet-shaped stashes bolted to the hulls of container ships.
France on Wednesday became embroiled in a dispute with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over his deadly war on drugs as it stressed the importance of human rights and the rule of law.
The former chief of France's drugs squad has been charged with complicity in drug smuggling as part of a probe into controversial methods used by the police to bring down drug barons.
French authorities have charged eight men after 1.3 tonnes of cocaine was seized on a cargo ship from Brazil in the western port of Le Havre, prosecutors said Friday.
A young British woman has died in Paris after taking a substance she believed to be cocaine but turned out to be the new psychedelic 'N-bomb' drug, according to reports. It is the first death in France related to the dangerous new designer drug.
