steewith2ees
Bluelight Crew
I think it's a pretty bad thing.
I also have no idea how such a complete vague mess of a legislation is actually going to pass through. Especially due to the complete lack of research, and an overall great deal of vulgar, arrogance and ignorance toward anyone, and everyone who expressed concern on the dangers this bill may cause.
The bill seems more likely to do more harm, than any good. I don't think this bill was even written with any intention on reducing the harm that drugs can have on a persons life.
We actually had a chance to monitor, control and reduce harm by making the RC industry government controlled.
Cloudstrife - despite it being the total mess you describe it has already passed, its done, its too late to stop it under any circumstances, its happened. Its not a bill anymore, its an Act Of Parliament that is already law - they have just decided to wait untill April before they start enforcing it in order to give the 'industry' time to respond and pack up.
@ Julkie & Sprout - As for selling RC's (and any other currently contolled drug for that matter) - yes it would be safer if they were sold under the supervision of someone who knows what they were on about and who could supervise their sales an monitor their usage. But some of us can read as well, so alot of the problems could be solved by packaging like this (Im using the benzos again as an example) - instead of covering the package with skulls, warning signs and the 'not for human usage' bullshit that they have to print to stay within the law, would it not be more beneficial for users if the packaging stated 'Diclazepam' - followed by a list of effects, and most importantly, something along the lines of 'This is a benzodiazepine type drug that can cause dependence. Please do not use for more than 14 days consecutively'. with a more in depth information leaflet about its safe use as one would get with a licensed medicine.
These things still gets sold anyway with no guidance at all about their safe use. If it was wasn't for bluelight and other similar resources users of all manner of drugs would have no information at all on how to use them as safely as possible and as a result lives may already have been saved. Imagine the problems that could have been avoided if these products had been sold as described above instead of all this plant food /.bath salt / research chemical bullshit hoops the vendors have had to jumo through to simply supply the products within the 'law'
'Ok' someone must have said. 'You can sell this crap, but dont let us catch you advising people on how to take them in a manner that reduces the harm they cause. You can sell them as long as you dont warn the customers about the potentially devastating effects they may experience. If you advise and warn them, then no - one will be harmed and we wont have any bullshit statistics to help pass our bullshit law in 2016..
Remember - Mephedrone was banned after it was implicated in 2 deaths. The ban went ahead, despite the fact that no one followed up on the deaths, which were subsequently discovered to have both been caused by the unprescribed use of Methadone Linctus which was sold to these lads in a pub. The drug was therefore banned after being responsible for exactly 0 deaths in the UK and of course the media did not attempt to amend the story when the truth came out, as methadone overdoses are common and boring, wont sell papers and wont get any new drugs banned.
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