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[UK] Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says
#14279075 - 04/12/11 05:10 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says April 12, 2011 - BBC
The government's advisers took too long to recommend banning mephedrone, allowing dealers to build up a stash of the drug, its chief drug adviser says.
The first problems with mephedrone were highlighted in September 2009, but the drug was not banned until March 2010.
Professor Les Iversen said he was "fairly confident" that "a good deal of stockpiling was going on" between January and March 2010.
Mephedrone became a class B drug, the same as speed or cannabis, last April.
Referring to the banning of mephedrone, Professor Iversen said: "There's a danger here of not acting quickly enough."
He said the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs would need to act more quickly with the planned new temporary banning orders which are currently going through Parliament.
'Heavy burden'
"One of the points of having a temporary-class drugs order is that it's something that can be done in a hurry and put a clamp on the further escalation of the use of that particular compound.
"So if we take too long about our deliberations, as we probably did in the case of mephedrone, it gives the users and dealers an opportunity to buy and stockpile that drug during the period while it's still legal.
"So while we want quick action, we don't want to make a hasty decision that we regret later. There's a fine balance to be had there," he said.
Under new plans, the ACMD will have 20 days to consider an initial ban and then around a year to provide a full report of the associated harms.
Prof Iversen also warned the temporary bans would place a "heavy burden in terms of workload" on the ACMD and called for a research budget to be ring-fenced to enable them to carry out basic research into the effects of the drugs.
"It can be done on quite a limited budget, but someone needs to have a budget," he said.
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Diacetylmentlegen
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Re: [UK] Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says [Re: veggie]
#14279216 - 04/12/11 05:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I wish these people would just ****ing grow up... I mean honestly, it gets tiring after a while, that's about all I can say or think anymore.
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Re: [UK] Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says [Re: Diacetylmentlegen]
#14279443 - 04/12/11 06:19 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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stockpiled? maybe but its still just a wiretranfer and a email away from a giant jug of the shit to your door. If customs gets even 2 percent of it tops there is still a shit ton of it pouring in to the UK every minute. At least the stuff is not cut with the stuff coke is cut with these days. That horse deworming shit seems like snorting AIDS. Every major cokehead I know is sick all the time now.
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Re: [UK] Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says [Re: Diacetylmentlegen]
#14279919 - 04/12/11 07:48 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Diacetylmentlegen said: I wish these people would just ****ing grow up... I mean honestly, it gets tiring after a while, that's about all I can say or think anymore.
Exactly. Hypocrites and idiots. Drugs are good and a sacred right for all people. No law will or ever has stopped anything. Education and choice is all people require.
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Re: [UK] Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says [Re: nice1]
#14283481 - 04/13/11 11:49 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says
Right. We need laws banning substances from human consumption to be passed hastily with little or no scientific research. We need laws that criminalize people who make the decision to ingest a substance to be executed overnight.
That is how you want to run your government.
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Re: [UK] Mephedrone ban 'took too long' chief drugs adviser says [Re: Society]
#14283494 - 04/13/11 11:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ban now ask questions later? Yea England, tell me again what is the difference between the Free countries and those third world countries again? O yea Afgans have poppies.
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