New law: Drugs must be proved safe for sale [NZ]

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New law: Drugs must be proved safe for sale

All party pills are set to be removed from shelves within a year and subject to a new safety test before any can be sold again.

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne this morning announced he would introduce legislation in October or November this year that would deliver ''the knockout blow'' to the party pills industry.

The Government has been applying temporary one year bans to new substances as they emerged, which amounted to a ''game of catch-up'' with the industry.

But Dunne said a new regime would reverse the onus of proof for safety, making all psychoactive substances illegal until approved by a new unit within the health ministry.

''All these substances will need to be cleared from a pharmacological, a toxicological and also a clinical point of view before they can be allowed anywhere near the shelves,'' Dunne said.

A ''long period of testing'' would be required before any substances could be approved, in the same way any new medications had to be approved.

Manufacturers would have to pay for the cost of regulation, which could cost them something like $1 million to $2m per annum.

What was acceptable as safe would be decided by the new administrator, but Dunne said his preference was for there to be no more party pills at all.

''We'll be looking for evidence of the pharmacology and toxicology risks involved [and] we'll be looking for evidence of clinical trials. It won't be a sort of once over lightly process,'' Dunne said.

''If that deters some people from bringing products to market that they think might not pass muster then so-be-it, that's a good thing.''

Dunne denied the regime risked pushing the industry underground, because the industry supported a formal regime being set up.

The current approach of temporary bans had seen 28 substances and more than 50 products that contained taken them off the market. That had contributed to a 75 per cent drop in the number of emergency call incidents around synthetic cannabis products.

The new approach, which Dunne planned to be in place by this time next year, would ''deliver the knockout blow''.

- © Fairfax NZ News
 
I assume that cannabis, mdma, lsd etc will now be legal as they all have many reports on safety etc. ;)

/s
 
So Dunne would prefer not to allow the slightest hint of an alternative to the black market.
 
There are so many organic compounds that could act as agonists or antagonists on any one of the receptors that interact with the handful of neurotransmitters generally related to illegal drugs (sorry for the run-on). Trying to get rid of the problem by making them illegal as they arise is like banging your head against the wall. This does 2 things: makes a black market for the substance that was just banned and encourages the distribution of another even less known about compound.

Congratulations on making everyone's life more difficult for no reason. Seriously, there isn't a single person out there that can't be negatively affected by this sort of retarded legislation
 
A bit funny how this Peter Dunne chap wants all legal highs to be "proven" safe, yet he is against regulation on a legal high that has been conclusively proven even in what many here in NZ define as "moderate" use to be hepatotoxic, cardiotoxic, carcinogenic, neurotoxic, tetrogenic, addictive and turns you into a loud obnoxious fuckwit.

This Dunne guy is an absolute disgrace, the real health issues in this NZ are the effects particularly on children of poverty and poor housing, obesity, mental illness/suicide, and the massive mismanagement in the health system. All of those issues require too much thought and big words, so this associate health minister douchebag instead is a broken record of asinine solutions towards a legal high "problem" that doesn't even exist.

For those who don't live in NZ, There is a massive and significant scandal around the government (asset sales) and all this crap on legal highs is merely distraction
 
I agree, new recreational drugs should prove they're safe, maybe the oldies but goodies should be grandfathered in.But sadly I think NZ will not approve new recreational drugs ever, even if it's as abusable as Prozac. It's probably less likely than the DEA giving out Schedule I licenses or approving schedule V drugs for OTC use.
 
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