BURSTING THE PROHIBITIONIST BALLOON
he arrival of the UK’s Psychoactive Substances Bill confirms that the war on drugs won’t be stopping anytime soon. Following the official clamour for legalisation of some soft drugs a few years ago, the Tories’ new, hastily drafted bill seeks to extend the reach of prohibition even further. While the new measures, cracking down on so-called psychoactive substances, were little more than an aside in last week’s Queen’s Speech, they represent some of the most authoritarian and overzealous restrictions on drug-use in recent memory.
The bill seeks to ban ‘any substance intended for human consumption that is capable of producing a psychoactive effect’. Coming in response to the burgeoning trade in ‘legal highs’ – synthetic riffs on old favourites like ecstasy and cannabis, sold as ‘plant fertiliser’ or ‘bath salts’ – the bill seeks to end the ‘game of cat and mouse’, as Home Office minister Mike Penning put it,...
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