https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed When customs officials at Bergen airport looked inside a box of chocolate bars carried by a 59-year-old Spanish man, they found all was not as it seemed. https://www.thelocal.no/20170228/norwegian-customs-get-a-kjnder-surprise Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:12:13 +0100 norwegian-customs-get-a-kjnder-surprise Surveillance cameras are set to be installed along the border between Sweden and Norway in an effort to catch drug traffickers, after a trial run resulted in treble the amount of drug runs being busted. https://www.thelocal.no/20161024/can-cctv-curb-drug-runs-between-sweden-and-norway Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:50:38 +0200 can-cctv-curb-drug-runs-between-sweden-and-norway Norwegian customs agents have reported a three-fold increase in the amount of cannabis confiscated at the nation’s borders. https://www.thelocal.no/20160705/cannabis-confiscation-up-threefold-in-norway Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:19:28 +0200 cannabis-confiscation-up-threefold-in-norway Police in northwest Norway have launched a Facebook appeal to find the owner of a 90 gram block of hashish, which was found by a small business on the island of Hitra. https://www.thelocal.no/20151015/anyone-lost-a-chunk-of-hash Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:18:38 +0200 anyone-lost-a-chunk-of-hash A 22-year-old Norwegian man has died from synthetic marijuana use, making him the first known Norwegian victim of the drug. https://www.thelocal.no/20150713/norway-sees-first-synthetic-marijuana-death Tue, 14 Jul 2015 01:25:47 +0200 norway-sees-first-synthetic-marijuana-death A 35-year-old man in south-eastern Norway has been given a three-month jail sentence for smoking hash with a nine-year-old boy. https://www.thelocal.no/20140602/man-smoked-cannabis-with-9-year-old-neighbour Mon, 02 Jun 2014 19:55:15 +0200 man-smoked-cannabis-with-9-year-old-neighbour Torkel Bjørnson-Langen, the manager of NORMAL, Norway's pro-cannabis group, says the forced resignation of one of the Conservative Party's most promising young MPs over cannabis smoking last month was sadly no surprise. https://www.thelocal.no/20140307/opinion-the-hash-hypocrisy-of-norways-conservatives Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:04:00 +0100 opinion-the-hash-hypocrisy-of-norways-conservatives A Conservative politician in Norway who last week took a brave stand for marijuana smokers by admitting to smoking the drug, has made a humiliating climb-down after being hauled in by the police for questioning. https://www.thelocal.no/20140304/norway-politician-grilled-by-police-after-hash-protest Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:51:00 +0100 norway-politician-grilled-by-police-after-hash-protest The Bergen deputy of Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg has resigned all his Conservative party positions, after admitting in a police interview to smoking cannabis. https://www.thelocal.no/20140228/cannabis-mp-resigns-all-party-positions Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:53:00 +0100 cannabis-mp-resigns-all-party-positions Problem cannabis use is overwhelmingly the result of genes rather than upbringing or lifestyle, a new twin study carried out by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has concluded. https://www.thelocal.no/20140108/problem-cannabis-use-is-genetic-says-norway-study Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:56:00 +0100 problem-cannabis-use-is-genetic-says-norway-study Norwegian customs officials are calling for increased funding after a surge in the quantity of synthetic cannabis coming into the country - most of it bought on the internet and delivered by post. https://www.thelocal.no/20131113/norwegian-customs-swamped-by-synthetic-cannabis Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:19:00 +0100 norwegian-customs-swamped-by-synthetic-cannabis The proceeds of Norway's largest ever bank heist have been used to finance an enormous drugs smuggling network, the country's police now believe. https://www.thelocal.no/20130924/nokas-millions-used-for-drugs-smuggling Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:31:00 +0200 nokas-millions-used-for-drugs-smuggling Norway's Green Party has proposed setting up a government agency to grow and sell cannabis, as it rolls out its manifesto ahead of this September's election. https://www.thelocal.no/20130802/norways-greens-call-for-government-cannabis-farms Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:55:00 +0200 norways-greens-call-for-government-cannabis-farms A Labour Party MP who once sought to legalize cannabis now risks losing his seat in parliament after he admitted using the drug as recently as three weeks ago. https://www.thelocal.no/20120903/mp-faces-exit-door-over-cannabis-use Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:28:59 +0200 mp-faces-exit-door-over-cannabis-use A 34-year-old Moroccan man had more than a kilo’s worth of cannabis in his stomach when he was stopped on Saturday by customs officers at Stavanger Airport, south-western Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20120214/moroccan-man-swallowed-kilo-of-hash Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:00:04 +0100 moroccan-man-swallowed-kilo-of-hash