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Legal highs Benzo Fury and NBOMe to be banned by ministers after being linked to deaths
By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor
PUBLISHED: 13:15, 28 November 2013
- Government's drug advisers call for permanent ban on two substances
- NBOMe to be a outlawed as a class A drug with dealers facing life in jail
- BenzoFury, dubbed a legal form of ecstasy, to be a class B substance
- Follows reports of deaths across the country and in the USA
- Jake Harris, 21, slit his own throat with a wine glass after taking NBOMe
- Trainee psychologist Jennifer Whiteley, 27, died after taking Benzo Fury
Two legal highs linked to a string of deaths in Britain are to be banned. The government’s official drugs advisers said NBOMe would be outlawed permanently as a class A substance, meaning dealers could face up to life in prison. It also recommended that Benzo Fury - once marketed as a legal form of ecstasy – be controlled as a class B substance.
Both drugs have been subject to temporary bans after concerns about their health effects. Crime prevention minister Norman Baker, who recently took up the post in the last coalition reshuffle, said: ‘I am grateful to the ACMD for its advice on Benzofury and NBOMe and we will respond in due course.’ NBOMe, known on the street as N-Bomb and Smiley Paper, is a popular club drug mainly bought over the internet.
Its effects, which can last six to 10 hours, include euphoria and feelings of love but also confusion, shaking, nausea, insomnia and paranoia, the ACMD said. Last week an inquest heard how father-to-be Jake Harris died after slitting his own throat with a broken wine glass when he suffered a devastating reaction to the drug. The 21-year-old is said to have gone 'crazy' at an all-night party after taking a mind-bending drug known as N-Bomb.
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