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New legal highs are hitting the streets every week as ministers call for another substance to be banned
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By Jack Doyle

PUBLISHED: 01:50, 12 October 2012 | UPDATED: 01:51, 12 October 2012

With reader comments

  • Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs set to issue advice to ministers
  • Urging them to outlaw 'Annihiliation' - which is available legally in Britain
  • Mimics effects of cannabis and can lead to paranoia and increased heart rate
A new ‘legal high’ is hitting Britain’s streets every week, drug experts warned last night - as they called for the ban of another danger drug. The Government’s drug advisory body urged ministers to outlaw a substance sold as ‘Annihiliation’ which is available legally on Britain’s streets. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is set to issue advice for ministers that use of the drug be made unlawful.
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The drug is also known as Mary Joy Pink, K2, Warning and Review. It sells for 1g for £10 and 3g for £20 and is widely available online. Designed to mimic the effects of cannabis, it can lead to paranoia, aggression and an increased heart rate. Users have also been found to self-harm after taking the drug, suffer numbness in their legs and been left unconscious.
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Maryon Stewart, whose medical student daughter Hester died after taking a legal high called GBL, said: ‘There were 49 new substances last year and there are even more this year. ‘Kids are putting themselves in danger without even realising it. Mrs Stewart, whose Angelus Foundation will next week launch a nationwide campaign warning of the dangers of legal highs, added: ‘They are called legal highs which implies they are safe but that’s really not right.’
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The drug is also known as Mary Joy Pink, K2, Warning and Review. It sells for 1g for £10 and 3g for £20 and is widely available online. Designed to mimic the effects of cannabis, it can lead to paranoia, aggression and an increased heart rate. Users have also been found to self-harm after taking the drug, suffer numbness in their legs and been left unconscious.
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Sounds great :\

It's getting to be more and more of a joke each week really, surely some of the people in power must realise it would be easier to just ban all those kinds of synthetic shit and market and sell the real stuff themselves and make loads of tax and have less health issues and complications.
 
poledriver said:
Sounds great :\

It's getting to be more and more of a joke each week really, surely some of the people in power must realise it would be easier to just ban all those kinds of synthetic shit and market and sell the real stuff themselves and make loads of tax and have less health issues and complications.
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Why "ban" anything? It's not a policy that works too well. MDMA and LSD are synthetic but are known to be relatively safe. Every banned substance was a "legal high" once. It's just a matter of separating the good ones from the bad ones and regulating them in a sensible way.
 
Nice to see the mephedrone ban from several years back and the many other bans that took place since have worked wonders at keeping kids off of legal highs.
 
poledriver said:
Sounds great :\

It's getting to be more and more of a joke each week really, surely some of the people in power must realise it would be easier to just ban all those kinds of synthetic shit and market and sell the real stuff themselves and make loads of tax and have less health issues and complications.
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What, you mean ban all the substances that you personally have no use for, but keep everything else legal? And what are you gonna do if someone else wants to ban "the real stuff" (presumably you mean cannabis) and keep everything else legal, then where would we be? Very much like where we are now, in a complete mess, because everyone is just thinking for themselves.

You have to think of everybody, not just your own wants. The sensible and humane solution is total legalization.
 
^can't agree with you more "The sensible and humane solution is total legalization." it just so hard for me to belive so few people realize that.
 
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