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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 The ban on legal highs: bleak news for Britain's headshops 🌿The ban on legal highs: bleak news for Britain's headshops
Theresa May’s psychoactive substances bill has plunged the nation’s legal highs sellers into existential crisis. The legislation would ban all recreational drugs, while making individual exceptions for booze, tobacco, caffeine and so on, ending the lucrative legal cat-and-mouse game that has allowed high street shops and internet entrepreneurs to deal, legally, in new and untested drugs.
It’s a phenomenon that has placed the headshop – that quaint institution once better known for selling tie-dye T-shirts and cannabis-flavoured lollipops – at centre stage in a booming industry. The UK has more than 250 shops, as well as dozens of legal highs websites, helping to make Britain the legal-high capital of Europe. But with May’s legislation looming, there is a sense the music is about to stop.
For several years Alchemy, a headshop that opened in London’s Portobello in 1977, carried a range of...
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