UK - Britain Steps Up its War on Legal Highs

[edgarshade]

Time

By Jak Phillips / London Friday, Nov. 25, 2011

Strolling through Camden Market, the modern-day Mecca for London's indie scenesters, a suspicious mix of darting eyes and exotic smells gives you the impression that the sea of shops and stalls offer something slightly more sinister than your standard Big Ben replicas. Led down to the dingy basement of one of these shops, you're confronted with a stunning stash of drugs — cannabis clones such as Amsterdam's Finest, party pills with names like Benzo Fury, and more mushrooms than you can shake a sweaty glo-stick at. The drugs are designed to mimic the effects of Schedule I and II substances like cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines — but every single one of them is legal.

And, as is often the case, those whom the new laws are intended to protect are the people least in favor of them. David, 35, spends his days working in London's financial sector and his nights partying on a high-octane fuel of legal highs. His drug of choice is the ecstasy-like Benzo Fury, and his "legendary" capacity for consuming it has earned him the nickname Benzo Dave.

Mindful of the effect these kinds of tragic headlines can have on public opinion, Britain's leaders believe tough tactics are the only way quell the legal-highs epidemic. Time will tell if this form of prohibition can be more successful than its predecessors.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2100285,00.html

 

[jack-special-k]

FFs, why would they do this drug's don't cause the problem, the goverment do. if they diden't care then there would be no problem. this upset's me