UK - Police keen for new powers that will allow them to seize legal highs

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Jul 5 2012

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POLICE are calling for the power to seize so-called legal highs.

The Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS) raised the issue with Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill following the death of a teenager at the Rockness music festival last month.

Alex Heriot, 19, from Edinburgh, is said to have taken Benzo Fury, a drug easily found for sale on the internet.

Chief Superintendent David O'Connor, president of ASPS, said legislation should be amended to give officers the power to confiscate legal highs in line with existing powers for alcohol.

"Every time you make one set of chemicals illegal, another comes along," he said.

"We have this strange situation where we can seize alcohol from young people but if you find them with drugs, not prescribed or over the counter, you don't have a firm legal footing to deal with it."
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Someone needs to explain to this copper that to license a drug for over-18 only it would first have to be regulated, not banned. It would imply saying that the substance is, in fact, intended for human consumption as long as you are over-18.

The only country I know of considering, or implementing, this is New Zealand.
 
Oh shit somebody crashed their car and died.

We should raise the issue of banning car's guys, they really are quite dangerous!
 
How and why should the police be able to seize something that is legal?
If its not against the law then surely the old bill have got no rights regarding taking something off folk.
 
Do you not think that there are times when the confiscation of alcohol by the police is an appropriate action?
 
Since all vendor's sell their products explicitly not intended for human consumption there's no way for them to know what something is...
How would you define a legal high?
There's no way of knowing what a nondescript powder is until it's chemically analysed... does that mean they want the power to seize all unknown substances?! How far could that go?
'Err scuse me sir you seem to have a suspicious looking white particle on your shoes we may need to take you in for questioning'.
Jesus.
We're slowly slipping into a fucked up police state.
 
I got assaulted last weekend because I got very aggressive and belligerent to a random (who was also being rather aggressive, though tbf I did deserve the assault given the aggression I gave this person) whilst quite drunk on alcohol, something that would never normally happen if I was sober or on any other chemical. Yet despite that, I don't see it being banned even though it is one of the most transformative, toxic and dangerous drugs available.
 
Right, but if you'd been that drunk in front of the police, and you'd had alcohol on you, you accept that them taking your alcohol would have been the right thing to do?
 
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though I have seen worse things lately.
 
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