Legal Highs Set to be Banned (UK)

[rubberbum]

Haven't seen this posted yet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8218688.stm

GBL, BZP and Cannabinoids to be banned by the end of the year.

[wildguy6969]

:eek:Fucking bobby's

[wildguy6969]

if there is will there is a way ! dont they know kids will start huffing paint once the legal drugs are gone and fucking crazy glue lol there are thousands and millions of possabiltys ......... there just throwing more gas on the fire ! there never going to win the war on drugs ............. never ever ever ever !!!!! theres to menny of us that like to expand and relax are minds ! most of us are good people !

[mercs]

I was considering a head shop as a way forward as I thought it's be a laugh and a cool business to have. With pretty much everything banned, I guess that's out very quickly!

I would have thought legal highs would be a good substitute. Sure drugs are dangerous, and there's been two deaths caused by misinformation in the past year, but what figures are there for alcohol and tobacco for the same period?

In economic crisis, legal highs could (with support) provide jobs and tax revenue, plus it would take cash away from drug dealers -which let's face it a number of which are messed up in other things and the money goes to funding criminal gangs- and allow it to be regulated and taxed by the government...

I knew BZP would go, but i thought everything else would be safe...

[Mona Lisa]

I'm enough of a cynic that I always thought it was just a matter of time before the whole lot goes but it's still a shame.

[mercs]

That's true, but I thought lesser of two evils. Kids are going to experiment with drugs regardless of what new laws are brought out -they've been doing it for 50 years quite happily on a large scale!

Legal highs are taxed, sold in shops and are relatively clean in terms of how they are made compared to certain drugs that are cut with almost anything...

Why not offer support to these shops and pass a law they have to have drug awareness and rehab leaflets, plus they must keep logs of under age attempts to purchase or potential problem users. It seems very odd that two deaths -CAUSED BY MISINFORMATION- means an outright ban. Surely the answer is to enforce these shops to have better information and support options...

or is that too sensible?