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Drugs
10 May
1967: Two Rolling Stones on drugs charges
02 Oct
1974: Cannabis 'causes brain damage'
02 Feb
1979: Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose
05 Oct
1984: Essex police make record drugs haul
18 Dec
1985: Drug traffickers' appeal rejected
18 Jul
1990: English teenagers held in Thailand over drugs
28 Dec
1993: Mafia link in cocaine haul
13 Nov
1995: Ecstasy pill puts party girl in coma
24 Dec
1997: Minister's son arrested in drug probe
24 May
1999: Drugs row Dallaglio goes
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