Sentences with phrase «n't psychoactive substances»

The Home Office works itself into even more desperate twists - and - turns when it tries to explain why alcohol and caffeine aren't psychoactive substances.

Not exact matches

However, you can't get «high» from the hemp foods now approved to be sold in Australia as they are too low in the hallucinogenic substance THC (delta 9 - tetrahydrocannabinol), the cannabinoid associated with the psychoactive properties of marijuana.

She complains that emergency and police services are not knowledgeable about new psychoactive substances.

When the psychoactive substances bill came out last month, it didn't take long for experts to start pointing out the problems with it.

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.

You don't have to wait for the psychoactive substances bill to become law for the absurd spectacle of its enforcement.

Why doesn't the government insert the word «harmful» into its definition of psychoactive substance, thereby getting rid of nonsense examples like nutmeg above?

Police scientists just aren't able to prove a substance is technically psychoactive.

Just saying — as the UK psychoactive substances bill does — that a substance triggers a change in emotions or thought is not enough, because so many substances we do not wish to target satisfy this definition.

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.

Psychoactive substances bill may lead to lack of clarity over whether or not suspects are breaking the law, says Durham PCC Ron Hogg

Vaz had argued in parliament that poppers should not be included in a list of substances banned by the 2016 Psychoactive Substsubstances banned by the 2016 Psychoactive SubstancesSubstances Act.

«For reasons that are unclear, the Home Office did not consult the ACMD on the development or drafting of the [psychoactive substances] bill despite its obvious competence and authority, and indeed its specific legal remit under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to advise on precisely such matters.»

«The ACMD's consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system.»

When trying to figure out whether or not a certain drug or product is covered by the Psychoactive Substances Act, there are three checks that need to be done.

Lord @brianpaddick: «Psychoactive Substances Bill is not evidence led and it should be» http://t.co/UzGlRUOldc @LibDemLords @LibDemPress

Remember that even before the introduction of the Psychoactive Substances Act, some if not most CBD products were already very likely being sold without the license required by law.

«Locking up drug users is not the answer,» says Lord Paddick, who has tabled amendments to government's controversial psychoactive substances bill

Our nation is slowly waking up to the truth that cannabis, what was once dubiously considered a dangerous psychoactive substance, is not only safe but extremely versatile in its medical benefits.