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Possession will be an offence in prisons, and it's still unclear as to how the law will work when purchasing psychoactive substances from foreign websites.

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.

More than 300 shops were stopped from selling psychoactive substances, 31 were forced to close, and four people received prison sentences.

The Psychoactive Substances Bill was modelled on a similar piece of legislation from the Republic of Ireland.

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.

Detective Sergeant Toby Howard from Ireland's Drug and Organised Crime Bureau told the BBC that police scientists had difficulty proving substances were psychoactive.

We were aware of an assault on a member of staff from someone who was using psychoactive substances and was normally very well behaved.»

Further evidence from Ireland, where a similar ban on all psychoactive substances exist, shows that prosecutions are highly difficult.

As from November 2011, the Home Secretary has the power to invoke a temporary class drug order for new psychoactive substances that, following advice from the ACMD, are considered to be a cause for concern.

This is our story about the advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs on the scope and definitions of the psychoactive substances bill.

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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Blunt and other MPs had hoped to use an amendment by shadow home secretary Andy Burnham to try to exclude poppers from the psychoactive substances bill, but they lost by 228 votes to 309.

Many of these psychoactive substances are little - known compounds culled from obscure research journals like Arnold's Swiss periodical.

The new DIY substances range from a vast inventory of performance - enhancing drugs consumed by gym rats looking to get big, to an ever - growing selection of psychoactive compounds sampled by club - hopping teenagers, to synthetic variations of hard - core narcotics wolfed down by desperate drug addicts.

«The implications are that the more individuals use psychoactive substances, the less responsive they will be to rewarding experiences, meaning that they may derive less reinforcement from other pursuits, such as interpersonal relationships, hobbies, and school work.

«Any psychoactive substance carries with it a set of unpredictable acute and long - term risks,» says Adam Winstock, from the National Addiction Centre at King's College London, who carried out the Mixmag survey.

The Psychoactive Substances Act was supposed to regulate synthetic drug production in New Zealand by making manufacturers prove their products were safe — but the rushed policy hindered the original goal, finds a new study from Massey University.

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.