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'Legal highs' outstrip attempts at regulation
    #14434813 - 05/11/11 12:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

'Legal highs' outstrip attempts at regulation
EU agencies warn synthetic psychoactive substances are spreading at an unprecedented rate, with 41 new ones in 2010

Alan Travis, home affairs editor
guardian.co.uk
Wednesday 11 May 2011 13.43 BST

New "legal highs" are being made widely available online and in specialised shops at an unprecedented pace, outstripping attempts to control them, the European Union's drugs agency has warned.

In a report published jointly with the law enforcement agency Europol, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) says in 2010 the two agencies officially noted 41 new psychoactive substances, many of them imitating the effects of ecstasy. Fourteen of them were first identified in Britain.

The Lisbon-based monitoring centre says the new substances are appearing at an "unprecedented pace", with the 41 new ones the largest number reported in any single year. The figure compares with 24 identified in 2009 and 13 in 2008.

The agencies say roughly a quarter of the substances identified last year – 11 of the 41 – were variants on synthetic cannabis drugs such as Spice, which 16 European countries, including Britain, have decided to ban or control amid health concerns.

A further 15 are synthetic cathinone derivatives, including mephedrone – also known as meow meow – which imitate the effects of ecstasy, amphetamines and cocaine. These were banned across Europe last December. The European drugs experts also identified for the first time derivatives of two other established drugs, ketamine and PCP.

The report says many of the newly identified substances were picked up by national police agencies through test purchases either online or from specialised "smart" or "head" shops. Many are marketed as legal highs or as plant food, and labelled "not for human consumption". The descriptions are specifically designed to circumvent drug controls.

It says their accelerating proliferation demonstrates the speed and sophistication at which the market is reacting to attempts to ban or control them, and the growing challenges presented by globalisation and innovation. Many are being developed by chemists in illegal laboratories in south-east Asia.

Wolfgang Götz, the EMCDDA's director, said: "Given the speed at which new developments occur in this area, it is important to anticipate future challenges. While our early-warning system has recently upped its operational capacity to react rapidly to new substances and products identified, it currently lacks the ability to anticipate emerging threats." He suggested the EU should give the agency the power to buy the new compounds so it could synthesise and study them.

Rob Wainwright, Europol's director, said the emergence of the substances was now a major feature of Europe's drugs problem: "Organised crime groups are increasingly active in producing and distributing drugs which can be associated with ecstasy," he said. "We are determined to combat this phenomenon."


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Re: 'Legal highs' outstrip attempts at regulation [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
    #14437056 - 05/11/11 09:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Just fucking give it up already, damn.


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    #14437219 - 05/11/11 09:39 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I had a feeling this sort of thing would happen. All I can say is: :haha:


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Re: 'Legal highs' outstrip attempts at regulation [Re: Odd_Nonposter]
    #14438541 - 05/12/11 03:22 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

"While our early-warning system has recently upped its operational capacity to react rapidly to new substances and products identified, it currently lacks the ability to anticipate emerging threats."

Or, translating to plain language, 'We don't give a flying fuck if the substances are harmful or not.  They are an emerging threat (emerging threat to the continued flow of money into the war on drugs coffers...)


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