Naphyrone is latest legal high banned
Friday 16th July 2010, 2:29PM BST.
GUERNSEY has moved to ban emerging legal high naphyrone.
It will be illegal to import or export the drug, which is typically marketed under the names NRG1 and NRG2, from next Tuesday.
The decision was made jointly by the Home Department in conjunction with the Health and Social Services Department after local professionals’ concerns about the drug – said to be similar in effects to cocaine and mephedrone – were supported in a recent report by UK body the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs.
In the paper, the ACMD recommended that naphyrone be made a Class B illegal substance because of its high potency and potential for harm.
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Whilst many Countries around the World are legalising and decriminalising drugs, Guernsey takes another step backwards banning yet another substance that has no deaths associated with it! At the same time Guernsey’s beloved Alcohol and Tobacco continue to kill and cause huge destruction to Society…
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Chris
Yes, and all the while we faff around with banning this high the next legal high is in a laboratory somewhere getting ready to hit the shops.
As the links from the substances in legal highs to any physical reaction generating “highness” become more tenuous, the substances in question will get more and more dangerous.
Pretty soon the substances that kids will able to get their hands on will be 10 times more lethal than that already banned. And our law officers waste time money and effort to add to the already growing list of banned substances.
If cannabis was decriminalised, taxed, and regulated, the amount of problems that would be solved is, well, too long to list.
But we are still happy to beleive the furore kicked up by a 70 odd year old smear campaign because no-one in power is willing to admit the continuing mistakes of generations of government.
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Firstly my condolences to the family and friends of those who were wrongly or rightly reported to have passed away as result of mephedrone use ,no amount of statistics or coroners reports can ever replace these people.
Media speculation was the reason for the ensuing witch-hunt that suspiciously preceded the 2010 general election.Media speculation which was no doubt “whipped” up by the then Govt. of the day ,linking any poor sole who happened to pass
away in the presence of a few people having a good time with the “killer drug” of the day Mephedrone.Tackled ,not with a responsible approach to the alleged deaths and injuries of at the time ,but in a crude and botched attempt to curry favour and gain votes of an often well meaning but gullible general public,with the aid of the gutter press and the basement roadcasters .This whole débâcle also involved the Ministry of Misinformation or some other inept Govt body questioning the morals and ethics of the hapless plant food vendors which at times such as those may or may not have been valid points, but these plant food vendors were not scoring points and gain votes at the expense of what now appears in the light of new evidence,random deaths with absolutely no mephedrone involved at all.We at justplantfood.biz do not
condone the consumption of what are in fact at just plant food ,we publicly state on our web site ,on our packaging,in any advertising and in any other way, that these products are strictly not for human or animal consumption,and I have no reason to believe that any of our customers do not adhere to this warning.moreover we will ban any person from our website for life (which we have done several times) if we suspect even slightly that they are ,have or will misuse these products.
we, like many other purveyors of top quality plant food will press on with supplying the legal needs of our happy and loyal customer base,until it is no longer possible .This will come about though legislation eventually and probably soon and the whole situation will just be exasperated to unseen levels as all types of unknown and unregulated chemicals hit the streets unchecked.
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