"Hippy Crack - The increasingly widespread drug that cannot be detected by police devices"

In December 2024, Thomas Johnson (19) was sentenced to nine years in prison after causing the deaths of three friends by driving his car into a tree at 100 miles per hour while under the influence of "hippy crack". As a result, the families of the young people killed in the accident, two 18-year-olds and one 17-year-old, called for tougher restrictions on drivers. In 2025, a young driver in Halifax, Yorkshire, died after colliding with an oncomi…