Make legal highs available for sale, government urged
Senior police have told inquiry into psychoactive synthetic drugs that making them illegal would not reduce their use
The Guardian (UK)
Monday, January 14, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
The least harmful new "legal highs" should be made readily available for sale under strictly regulated conditions rather than being immediately banned as happens now, according to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform (APPG). Senior police officers told the inquiry into the new psychoactive synthetic drugs, which are appearing in Britain at the rate of more than one a week, that the existing criminal sanctions for drug users is doing nothing to reduce their use. (See also: Decriminalise drugs, inquiry by cross-party peers says and From mephedrone to Benzo Fury: the new 'legal highs')
