Manchester Uni collects up to £146k in drugs fines, but spends £1k on drugs education In five years UoM has fined almost 600 students in its ‘zero-tolerance drugs policy’ 2 weeks ago Drugs and uni life in Manchester often seem inseparable. A Tab poll placed UoM joint second in the country for the uni who takes the most drugs. Yet the University of Manchester still maintains a relentless “zero-tolerance policy” to drugs. Figures obtained by The Manchester Tab reveal that between 2016 to 2021 the university fined a total of 584 students just in uni halls of residence for drug-related offences. With fines ranging from between £100 to £250 per offence, this means the uni has raked in somewhere between £58,400 to £146,000 in fines.