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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 How did the mind-boggling new drugs bill make it through parliament? 🌿How did the mind-boggling new drugs bill make it through parliament?
There are two things that politicians tend to be bad at: sex and drugs. Thankfully, MPs' recent visits to our bedrooms have tended to be brief, and usually have left us in a more liberal place than we were before. But drugs? Politicians can really get their teeth into drugs – with often messy results.
The Conservative party was elected in 2015 with a clear majority, and therefore a mandate to start work on its manifesto pledges. One of these promises was to address so-called “legal highs” – a project that birthed the Psychoactive Substances Bill. The Commons and the Lords are now reviewing each other’s final amendments, the bill’s final stop before becoming law.
What problem does the Psychoactive Substances Bill hope to solve? Currently drugs are regulated by the Misuse of Drugs Act which classifies controlled substances according to their “harms” and specifies penalties associated with using, supplying or...
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