UK ban on "legal highs"

Except legal highs are complete ****.

Close the company's that make them

You want them legalised ???

There was a girl at my old college aged 19 with her whole life in front of her. She was intelligent, bubbly very likeable and wanted to be a teacher.
She took only 1 legal high at a party and suffered a massive brain haemorrhage and brain swelling. She spend 6 months in a coma. She has only made a partial recovery but needs 24 hour nursing care, suffers regular epileptic seizures, blinding headaches and sickness. She has to be spoon fed, unable to use the toilet and has a mental age of a 3 year old. Its highly unlikely she will make much more of a recovery and may not live to be 40.

That's what LEGAL highs can do to people! And you want this poison kept legalised? What next sell them in sweet shops next to schools so kids don't have to get them from underworld dealers?

That's what LEGAL highs can do to people! And you want this poison kept legalised? What next sell them in sweet shops next to schools so kids don't have to get them from underworld dealers?

You've messed the question up.

'Will the ban be banned'

My mum has fond memories of a kid dying from the college she works at

legal highs are a mug's game

Yeah I just realised that. Is there any way to change it? It should read "Will the ban be enforced..." FWIW

Except legal highs are complete **** and the majority or people who buy them are dumb adolescents because they're so easy to buy from seedy little stores. Just smoke some weed ffs.
My mum has fond memories of a kid dying from the college she works at and another getting hospitalised because of dat stuff.
I'm all for legalising drugs that have a decent pleasure/risk payoff, but **** drugs like legal highs are like slow euthanisation for the socially deprived.

But this doesn't just ban "legal highs". It bans EVERY SUBSTANCE which affects the brain. It bans research chemicals, making medical research into Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, depression, all sorts of psychiatric and neurological disorders significantly more difficult. It bans herbal treatments for depression and anxiety. It bans every single substance developed in the future which affects the brain. When Prof. David Nutt and his team manage to develop "alcosynth" - a safe alternative to alcohol - it will be BANNED while alcohol will remain legal. The idiot MPs writing this legislation don't even know of the existence of most of the substances that will be banned. Most of the substances that will be banned haven't even been ****ing created yet.

But that's only the tip of the iceberg for this disgusting, ludicrous piece of legislation. The Psychoactive Substances Act is based on another piece of legislation - the Irish Psychoactive Substances Act. Since that act was passed in Ireland, use of legal highs has gone UP (Ireland has the highest usage of legal highs in the EU, with OVER 20% of people having tried them). The only thing this act actually achieved in Ireland was shutting down the shops offering a safe source of these products, and forcing people to buy from illegal dealers with no concern for their customers' welfare. This act has been tried and it made the problem significantly worse.

We know for a fact that prohibition of drugs doesn't stop people from using them.

So what do we do? Do we listen to the facts? Nah, we introduce the exact same piece of legislation to appease some uninformed morons!!!

This is possibly the worst piece of legislation ever written, and anyone who supports it is ****ing stupid. How anyone can genuinely believe, after almost a century of trying, that you can actually stop people from using drugs is beyond me. How do you become so detached from reality? I wish I could live in my own ****ing fantasy bubble.