Sentences with phrase «legal highs»
"Legal highs" refers to drugs or substances that are designed to mimic the effects of illegal drugs, but are manufactured using legal ingredients. They are often sold as alternatives to illicit drugs, even though they may still pose risks to health and safety. Full definition
The press is starting to pick up on the use of legal highs behind bars.
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Today's report on legal high deaths in prison makes for harrowing reading.
The laws on controlled substances can't really deal with legal highs because a small change to the structure of a chemical often means it falls outside statute.
Under current law, new legal highs are subject to a temporary banning order for 12 months, which is usually made permanent after that period.
The entire legal high market only exists because of prohibition.
But then legal highs came along which couldn't be tested for at all.
Cases brought against producers of legal highs could fail due to the absence of any clinical trials on humans, MPs heard.
It eventually emerged today alongside a less liberal report calling for a blanket ban on legal highs.
And now it is happening with legal highs themselves.
NPS, which often mimic the effects of drugs such as cannabis, were widely known as legal highs before laws criminalising their production; distribution, sale and supply were introduced last year.
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If cannabis and MDMA were made available to adults under properly regulated conditions then the demand for legal highs would dry up overnight.
New treatments for depression and experiments which might help explain human consciousness will be put at risk if the bill banning legal highs is passed, researchers have warned.
«The internet has provided a whole new business model for selling legal highs,» says King.
«There have been 57 separate reports by police regarding legal highs in the borough over the last 12 months with incidents including robbery, theft, anti-social behaviour and sexual assault.»
Lambeth council's legal highs order is actually even more insane than the nonsense being proposed by the Home Office.
But when researchers from Liverpool John Moores University, UK, bought 17 products advertised as legal highs from 12 UK - based websites, only one of 10 products sold as NRG - 1 contained naphyrone, with the rest made up mainly of mephedrone and other banned cathinones.
Most internet retailers stopped selling mephedrone, also known as plant food or miaow miaow, when it was banned in April — but many began offering other legal highs in its place.
Stories such as a 20 - year - old Saido Berahino using legal high in his car do not help in endearing footballers to the public either.
Parliament will be issuing its response to the European Commission's attempt to secure control of legal highs regulations.
The law, which banned the sale of so - called legal highs in high - street head shops, had many critics, including the police, homeless services, drug treatment centres and prison officers.
This week the crime prevention minister Norman Baker announced that the government had decided to opt out of proposals for a directive on new psychoactive substances (NPS), fearing that they would «fetter the UK's discretion» to control legal highs.
The 29 - year - old is seen in a hotel room with friends and two female companions with the floor littered with cans of legal high nitrous oxide.
So legal highs were very popular in New Zealand.
When they experimented with a different approach, world governments realised that being sensible about legal highs meant bringing the war on drugs to its knees.
He has been very circumspect about the dreadful decision on khat but his apparent determination to prohibit legal highs is very worrying.
Evidence from legal experts and leading academics, submitted to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), suggests that prosecutors will struggle to prove that many legal highs are actually psychoactive.
A subtle tweak in the approach to regulating legal highs could provide a glimmer of hope for campaigners demanding a more liberal approach to Britain's drug laws
These tests create a perverse incentive in the prison system, pushing users towards untraceable legal highs which are actually more dangerous than many of the illegal drugs they would otherwise use.
It is the reason legal highs exploded in the first place — you clamp down on prohibited drugs, people will find another way of getting the same effect.
As the Reitox Poland report from 2013 shows, the country's number of «legal high related poisonings» dropped temporarily after the ban, but within three years it was above pre-ban levels.
All of which helps explain why the law against legal highs has been so disastrously counter-productive in the countries in which it has been used.
Campaigners are increasingly seeing the battle over legal highs as their best avenue for securing more wide - reaching changes to drug policy.
12:15 - A good opportunity for Cameron to address legal highs, duly provided by a loyal Tory backbencher, is followed by Ed Miliband's return.
Truth is, most of these aren't legal highs at all - hundreds of compounds used in the drugs are now banned.
In which case, you could be in for a shock, as it became clear this week that the government's new legal highs crackdown could make a whole series of everyday items illegal.
The ombudsman then lists the measures prisons can take to tackle legal high use, like information sharing and monitoring.
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Its precise origins are unclear, though early reports suggest it was being supplied by an Israeli legal high seller called Neorganics as far back as 2007.
«Legal high kills two teens,» cries the Daily Express.
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Had one of them done so, it might well have led to a different kind of legal High Noon where Amazon might have been vulnerable to regulatory scrutiny for monopolistic behavior of its own.
Banning legal highs will simply expand the criminal market and encourage the chemists to come up with more untested, unregulated and dangerous substances.
Baker said he was considering plans to licence shops to sell legal highs, in a bid to bring the trade under the control of regulators.
It could only be published after the two coalition parties agreed to publish it alongside a tough report on legal highs.
Les Iversen, chairman of the UK government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), said a new legal framework was needed because when novel drugs are made illegal, underground chemists and dealers simply replace them with new legal highs.
Lambeth's legal highs order is even more insane than the plans proposed by the Home Office and just how enforceable it will be is anyone's guess.