'Legal highs bill' puts medical research at risk
New treatments for depression and experiments which might help explain human consciousness will be put at risk if the bill banning legal highs is passed, researchers have warned.
In an open letter to Theresa May, leading British scientists urged the home secretary to add an exemption for "research pharmaceuticals being used to develop new medicines or progress neuroscience research", so that new treatments and experiments were not brought to a halt by the bill.
"Many types of important research could potentially be affected by the bill, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where substances with psychoactive properties are important tools in helping scientists to understand a variety of phenomena, including consciousness, memory, addiction and mental illness," the letter reads.
"The bill, as currently worded, could be interpreted to include experimental substances like these, putting such research at significant risk."
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