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Other countries aren't the UK.

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And why would the UK never legalise drugs? If more states in the US adopt the legalisation of certain illegal drugs and other countries around the world, and it continues to prove useful then it's almost inevitable that the UK will follow suit.

The UK has its own laws and those laws are not controlled by the US, nor does the House or Commons or the House of Lords amend or create laws in reply to what the U.S has or is wanting to do.

Are you serious? At what point did I even hint at the notion the US controls UK laws... And yes states quite often amend laws when looking at how positively or adversely they affect their respective societies. Or do you think every country just coincidentally managed to come up with similar laws?

"Our cases suggest supra-therapeutic dextromethorphan doses with a therapeutic amount of a SSRI are required for serotonin syndrome"

Yes, when combined with an SSRI. Read your own links.

The ability of dextromethorphan to potentiate serotonin levels and lead to serotonin syndrome is well known but few case reports are published.

More work is needed to answer this question more completely.

Why even bring the U.S. and its states up? What was your point?

Like I said before; drug laws have already been amended. The general public have already voted and the law has been made.

[edit] This thread has been ongoing for a while now. Let's see what happens and re-visit this thread in 5 years time. Nothing will have changed.

Sorry when did the public vote on drug laws? When are the general public ever consulted on public policy? Im asking a genuine question here in case I sound provocative XD

Once a bill (a possible new law) is called for, this includes changes to current laws, said bill is scrutinised by both the House of Lords and House of Commons. Within these are professionals of the subject, knowledge peers and of course the general public are invited to express their thoughts and opinions on the new bill.

In addition, public groups, both against and for can express their views. For example; Green Peace may get involved with specific subjects. Etc.

Your phrasing implied that there was a global vote on drug policy. I believe that if there were such a vote our drug laws wold be very different.

No, not at all. You can't expect there to be a universal vote on each law that is created or amended. It would simply take too long.