Jesus Christ... You guys need to take to the streets over this shit. It kills me how accepting ya’ll seem to be of this, quite frankly, unacceptable situation.
Over here in the US I’m buying legal cannabis, psychedelics are being decriminalized in certain areas, and you know what we did when they tried taking our kratom? We said FUCK YOU!
Was there even protests? Riots? Any of that?
-GC
The problem is primarily in how the issue is framed in the media. While us users saw it as a reduction of freedoms, and indeed many lawyers could see from a mile off it was a totally unenforceable peace of legislation, there was media outrage about "kids as young as 12 buying legal highs online" all over the tabloid media. So the government essentially created the act to appease Daily Mail readers. Additionally, headshops were often fairly brazen about selling RCs, and the law means it's no longer visible to middle class people as they walk down the street.
Does any of this mean we've stopped getting fucked up? Of course not. In fact the PSA is so unenforceable the government is still manually adding new RCs to the old controlled drugs laws (Misuse of Drugs Act) as they pop up because even they know they cannot actually enforce it. The law is worded so broadly it technically makes flowers illegal.
Got any perfume or incense in the house? It looks like you might be breaking the law once the psychoactive substances bill meant to target legal highs comes into effect
www.politics.co.uk
Why does it exist? See above. Keeps it out of the newspapers and out of headshops. Out of sight, out of mind.
Meanwhile "spice" has become much more potent, sold by dealers in unknown doses of unknown blends, mostly to vulnerable populations such as the homeless, as RC benzos including blister packed etizolam have been replaced by pressed "Xanax bars" that could contain literally anything, whereas all RCs used to be available from legally registered companies.
So prohibition is working just as well as it usually does as far as supply and use goes. But the law does what the government
actually intended it to do. I'd also be very surprised if money did not change hands between the government and their mates in the alcohol, tobacco, and pharma lobbies during the process.
A blanket ban on all legal highs that aren’t from industries with close ties to the Government has come into force in the UK.
newsthump.com
Wanna know something real funny? The bloke who chaired the committee responsible for putting the law into place was the same guy who got tricked by a TV show into trying to ban a completely fictional drug.
David Amess, who thought Brass Eye's "cake" was a drug, is now chairing the psychoactive substances committee
www.wired.co.uk
In the meantime I've been buying kratom from the Netherlands, phenibut from Spain, benzos from eBay, codeine OTC at the pharmacy, weed from my dealer, and anything I could possibly want from the DNMs, while I get speed prescribed to me.
There's no riots and protests because it's a fucking joke, the law never stopped anyone using drugs before the PSA and it still hasn't since.
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