Legal Highs To Be Outlawed

This should have been done long ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32844191

If they try to ban these substances they will sell them on the black market

Quote: astwood wrote in post #2

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If they try to ban these substances they will sell them on the black market

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If they ban them ,I think the drug dealers will fill the gaps, so they will still be available to those who want them.

Cannabis and stuff like legal highs are everywhere these days mate
you can smell the skunk up my way most nights

Yea there's a pub a couple of minutes walk from us,you know deals are going on all the time.

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #6

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Yea there's a pub a couple of minutes walk from us,you know deals are going on all the time.

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I really think the police are losing the battle against drugs'.

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #8

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I really think the police are losing the battle against drugs'.

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Yea especially after camerons cut back's.

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #10

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Yea especially after camerons cut back's.

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While agreeing completely that action is necessary, the problem may be on how to do it. Just banning any substance that is claimed to give a high (with presumably alcohol, caffeine & tobacco excepted) will not solve it.Some of these psychoactive compounds are sold ~(sometimes legally) for other purposes, and then word gets around amongst the idiots that they have other effects. No doubt some inventive person could make up a legal use for the material and then spread the word.. You can't have a positive list where there is a long list of substances are listed as illegal - that is what is there today, and the chinese chemists just tweek the compound to make something slightly different - it is , as i understand it, some of these tweekings that are the most dangerous, as a small difference in the compound's structure can make an enormous effect on how it affects you, sometimes a very deleterious effect . So some politician saying they are going to ban them just like that is likely to be as useful as the claims after WW2 that nuclear power will make electricity so cheap that its cost will approach zero. Lets gope some bright person can think of an effective way to do it, but ot won't be some useless pratt politician making a declaration

Thanks for your thoughts on that Mike. Lets hope all the right things are sorted and the Government take the right advice.

I went to the top of the World Trade Centre a couple of times and no one said anything about it.

Nor at the Burj Kalifa