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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 UK: Ban on legal highs would technically cover alcohol, cigarettes and coffee 🌿UK: Ban on legal highs would technically cover alcohol, cigarettes and coffee
New bill proposes banning all psychoactive substances then expressly permitting use of government-approved drugs
A new blanket ban on legal highs is to be so widely drawn that its provisions could be used to outlaw alcohol, tobacco, coffee and many other widely-used items, ministers have acknowledged.
The Home Office said that one of the main elements of the psychoactive substances bill would be a ban on the trade in “any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect”, with a maximum seven-year prison sentence to back up the ban.
But it quickly added that “substances such as alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, food and medicinal products would be excluded from the scope of the offence”.
The legislation to be published later this week is modelled on similar blanket bans in Ireland and Poland, but in both cases their legislation specifies that the psychoactive or mind-altering effect must...
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