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Herald Scotland
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Lucy Adams
With reader comments
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...al-highs-laced-with-controlled-drugs.16262681
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Lucy Adams
With reader comments
ONE-FIFTH of so-called "legal highs" contain controlled drugs, according to new forensic studies done by police in a new drive to identify their chemical content.
The tests also found them sold in shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh contained potentially fatal substances.
Officers at the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency have been running an "overt purchasing" scheme in which police buy substances sold as legal highs from head shops – purveyors of drug paraphernalia and herbal remedies.
Several of the "legal high" tablets tested contained paramethoxymethylamphetamine (PMMA), which is believed to have been responsible for at least 19 deaths in Europe since summer 2010.
In the new year the new legislation allowing for temporary banning orders for new psychoactive drugs will come into force. It will make it illegal for people to be involved in the supply of newly banned substances.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...al-highs-laced-with-controlled-drugs.16262681