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The government's new blanket ban on psychoactive substances will be unworkable, difficult to prosecute and will put lives at risk, MPs have heard.
Evidence from legal experts and leading academics, submitted to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), suggests that prosecutors will struggle to prove that many legal highs are actually psychoactive.
Cases brought against producers of legal highs could fail due to the absence of any clinical trials on humans, MPs heard.
Prosecuting would be a "difficult and unworkable task, as little or no evidence is available regarding [the substances'] pharmacological activities in vivo in humans and expert witnesses may be reluctant to extrapolate data from animal models, in silico or in vitro studies," lecturer in criminal law Amber Marks told the committee.
Further evidence from Ireland, where a similar ban on all psychoactive substances exist, shows that prosecutions are highly difficult.
Detective Sergeant Toby Howard from Ireland's Drug...
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