Sentences with phrase «psychoactive substances which»

«Evidence is now emerging of so - called grey marketplaces — online sites selling new psychoactive substances which operate on both the surface and the deep web.

«Psychoactive substances which have been around for many, many years and it's now the government is realising how dangerous some of these substances are.

Not exact matches

Hemp has very minimal traces (if any) of THC, which is the psychoactive substance found in marijuana.

Take the psychoactive substances bill, in which May outlawed drugs which did not exist, by banning something she could not define, despite plenty of evidence from other countries that this would exacerbate the legal highs problems.

According to the bill, a psychoactive substance is something which «is capable of producing a psychoactive effect in a person who consumes it».

One of the things the British government failed to do when it wrote up the psychoactive substance bill was check how things had worked out in two other countries which had tried it: Poland and Ireland.

The psychoactive substances bill already has an exemption for investigational medicinal product, but this does not apply to purely experimental substances which are not expected to have a therapeutic effect.

The psychoactive substances bill sought to crack down on legal highs — especially the new generation of drugs that are designed to mimic the effects of traditional illicit substances such as cannabis and ecstasy — which the Home Office says caused 129 deaths in 2015.

The decision to confirm the exclusion of poppers from the Psychoactive Substances Act, which will criminalise the trade in legal highs from April, was announced by a Home Office minister, Karen Bradley, on Tuesday.

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This seems unlikely, but could be explained by the unavoidable flaw in the Psychoactive Substances Act which is that its wording is so vague, and its aims so unclear, that nobody - especially the police - really has any idea how or when to enforce it.

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

Novel Psychoactive Substances are synthetic or «designer» drugs which have increased in popularity in recent years.

Cannabis sales have been illegal since the 1970 Controlled Substances Act was passed, with the only exceptions being the products made from the «mature stalk» and «sterilized seed» of the hemp plant, which could still be sold since they contained little to no psychoactive components.

Exclusion criteria included either partner being in a methadone maintenance programme or having a major mental disorder, or couples in which women had a recent psychoactive substance use disorder.