Items tagged with legal highs
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| Ban, ignore or regulate? Kratom and the Whac-A-Mole world of soft drugs [19.04.2023] | It’s a leaf, it’s sold as a dye, and it’s used as a drug: It’s kratom, and it’s all the rage in the Czech Republic. Kratom is among the dozens of psy ... |
| Near majority of Canadians back legal pot but it doesn’t look like a vote-getter in 2019: poll [21.09.2017] | Canadians are divided on legalizing recreational marijuana, with nearly half supporting the sale and distribution of the illicit substance, however m ... |
| A flagship law is on the brink of collapse as experts say the Tories have ‘blood on their hands’ [31.08.2017] | One of the Conservative government’s flagship laws has been left on the brink of collapse, as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced a “full r ... |
| Congress is considering a bill that would expand Jeff Sessions’s power to escalate the war on drugs [16.06.2017] | Congress is considering a bill that would expand the federal government's ability to pursue the war on drugs, granting new power to the attorney gene ... |
| The expanding universe of synthetic drugs [20.05.2017] | The 20th century saw new drugs created from scratch: amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and more. It also saw a far more spirited, if often ... |
| Doctor: Legalisation of pure MDMA should be considered [18.06.2015] | Dr Paul Quigley, an emergency medicine specialist and clinical toxicologist at Wellington Hospital, says the legalisation of pure MDMA - the main ing ... |
| Bans on legal highs will drive booming trade underground, drug experts warn [03.06.2015] | The booming trade in legal highs will go underground in the face of blanket bans, such as that now being debated in Britain, European drug experts ha ... |
| Fear of flakka: Anti-drug hysteria validates itself [15.04.2015] | Recent news reports about "the dangerous new drug sweeping Florida," told you two things about flakka: It gives you "superhuman strength," and you sh ... |
| Teens are being used as guinea pigs in the synthetic drugs market [02.03.2015] | The low volume, high frequency internet drugs market makes it hard for police to target. And even harder for teenagers to know what they’re taking. A ... |
| Illegal drugs laws: Clearing a 50-year-old obstacle to research [26.01.2015] | The United Nations drug control conventions of 1960 and 1971 and later additions have inadvertently resulted in perhaps the greatest restrictions of ... |
| Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’ [05.01.2015] | The deaths of four men who had taken pills they thought were ecstasy are the result of the government’s "illogical and punitive drug policy", says Dr ... |
| How powerful synthetic drugs will upend drug markets globally [01.12.2014] | Illicit drugs made from plants (e.g., cocaine, heroin) are being replaced in some national drug markets by those that are synthesized (e.g., methamph ... |
| Expert seminar: Global experiences with harm reduction for stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances [04.08.2014] | The Expert Seminar on the Global Experiences with Harm Reduction for Stimulants and New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), an initiative of the Transnati ... |
| 'Mountain of synthetic cannabis' hits Norway [12.11.2013] | Norwegian customs officials are calling for increased funding after a surge in the quantity of synthetic cannabis coming into the country - most of i ... |
| New Zealand’s bold experiment with regulating recreational drugs [07.10.2013] | One country is trying a new approach. For the first time in history, New Zealand has created a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs. Passed ... |
| New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation [31.08.2013] | On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, ma ... |
| More than 280 'legal highs' now on European drug experts' radar [28.05.2013] | "Legal highs" and other new psychoactive synthetic drugs represent a fundamental shift in the market in illicit drug, according to the 2013 annual su ... |
| ‘Club drug’ ketamine lifts depression in hours [21.05.2013] | The largest study to date confirms that ketamine — a “club drug” that is also legally used as an anesthetic — could be a quick and effective way to r ... |
| Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar [15.05.2013] | The chief drugs adviser to the government has given his strongest warning yet on legal highs in Britain, saying there are now more than 200 synthetic ... |
| Drugs 2.0: The web revolution that's changing how the world gets high by Mike Power – review [11.05.2013] | Every day we hear about what the internet has done to books, music and newspapers. But there's one massive retail industry that has also been radical ... |
| From Chinese factory to UK households – realities of the trade in legal highs [08.05.2013] | Chemistry firms in many Chinese provinces are churning out modified versions of illegal drugs and selling them online. Everything from amphetamine-li ... |
| Clubbers mix former legal high mephedrone with ecstasy, despite ban [27.04.2013] | Clubbers are regularly taking the former legal high mephedrone alongside ecstasy and cocaine, a trend that experts warn could have grave health impli ... |
| The hidden dangers of legal highs [26.04.2013] | It's never been easier, or cheaper, to buy drugs online – but no one knows what's in them, or how dangerous they are. For most of the last decade, an ... |
| Drop charges over ecstasy, police urged [21.03.2013] | Ecstasy users should not be charged by police, former Labor health minister Neal Blewett said during a provocative keynote address to the peak police ... |
| Generic legislation of new psychoactive drugs [28.02.2013] | New psychoactive drugs (NPDs, new psychoactive substances) enter the market all the time. However, it takes several months to ban these NPDs and imme ... |
| Kiwis on drugs: a blueprint for the future? [27.02.2013] | This week New Zealand publishes its Psychoactive Substances Bill, legislation which some believe will transform the international debate on drugs pol ... |
| Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14.01.2013] | For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘le ... |
| Make legal highs available for sale, government urged [14.01.2013] | The least harmful new "legal highs" should be made readily available for sale under strictly regulated conditions rather than being immediately banne ... |
| Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level of harm in Britain [13.01.2013] | The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform undertook an inquiry into the implications of the arrival of "legal highs" – a new substance ... |
| ‘It opens your heart’ [27.12.2012] | Exactly a century after ecstasy was first patented, Health Canada has approved the drug’s import for the first Canadian study using the illegal subst ... |
| Britain has not simply fallen out of love with illegal drugs [17.12.2012] | "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" summed up the response from the Home Office, and later David Cameron, to the publication of the home affairs select ... |
| David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [09.12.2012] | David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation ... |
| Government cracks down on legal highs [10.10.2012] | Legal highs will undergo a costly and lengthy testing process involving human clinical trials under a strict new regime that could see manufacturers ... |
| Illicit drugs 'going out of fashion' [27.09.2012] | Illicit drug use in England and Wales is firmly on a downward curve, with the latest annual figures confirming the long-term trend that they might si ... |
| Can MDMA help to cure depression? [14.09.2012] | There is a real concern among many scientists that the government's classification of ecstasy as Class A overstates the danger it poses to society an ... |
| Legal use of cannabis, ecstasy for over-15s backed by state medical body [10.09.2012] | A report by a group of prominent Australians that recommends Australia rethink its criminalisation of illicit drugs has been backed by the Victorian ... |
| 'Revolutionary' legal high law means state regulated drug market [27.07.2012] | Kronic-style drugs are expected back on the shelves under the new legal high law being crafted by Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne. Experts say t ... |
| Matt Bowden: The drugs lord who's strictly legal [13.07.2012] | It is a remarkable statement - the rock musician and drugs activist credited with spawning the global legal highs industry is now calling for new law ... |
| New Psychoactive Substances [03.07.2012] | Addressing the rapid escalation in consumption of new psychoactive substances among young people around the world, we have produced a report outlinin ... |
| Feds hike danger rating on ecstasy while health officers urge drug policy reform [23.06.2012] | Several top public health officials are proposing a rethinking of current illegal-drug policies they assert spurs on a global problem involving ecsta ... |
| Pure ecstasy can be 'safe' if consumed responsibly: B.C. health officer [13.06.2012] | B.C.'s top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be "safe" when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police in Alberta and Brit ... |
| Legal high drug 'mexxy' banned under new government powers [27.03.2012] | A so-called legal high used as an alternative to ketamine will be the first drug to be banned under new government powers. Methoxetamine, or mexxy, w ... |
| Let the qat out of the ban [01.03.2012] | Over half of EU countries, as well as the United States and Canada, ban the stimulant qat, a sort of mild amphetamine. But attempts to do so in Brita ... |
| Legal highs evade being banned as scientists run out of cash to test them [12.02.2012] | Scientists studying Britain's rapidly increasing number of synthetic recreational drugs are struggling to assess the risks they pose because money fo ... |
| Is banning legal highs effective? [19.01.2012] | New psychoactive substances (commonly known as legal highs) are spreading across Europe with growing speed. Between 1997 and 2010 the early-warning s ... |
| Nieuwe publicatie van het Transnational Institute raadt de regering af khat te verbieden [11.01.2012] | De engelstalige briefing Chewing over Khat Prohibition rekent af met de effectiviteit van een ban, zoals is gebleken uit andere Europese landen. Prob ... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition [10.01.2012] | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is f ... |
| Clubbers should be able to test their ecstasy [28.11.2011] | Media reports of two deaths at the weekend in the same party venue have once again been accompanied by police suggestions that the drug responsible i ... |
| Rope a Dope: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Labs Enlisted in the War on "Legal" Synthetic Drugs [23.11.2011] | A worldwide arms race has erupted between inventive street chemists who concoct "legal" highs and government officials who wish to regulate and inter ... |
| Ecstasy is back in clubs as newly potent drug is taken with 'legal highs' [20.11.2011] | Ecstasy, the drug of choice for the clubbers of the early 1990s, is making a comeback. Once synonymous with the rave scene, its popularity declined a ... |
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