Welp, looks like this might be it for the RC scene in the UK, lads. No idea how such fundamentally vague wording as simply "psychoactive" could make it into law. For example I'll be watching to see how heavily the force of the law comes down on the majority of psychoactive substances sold in that den in iniquity and vice that is Holland & Barrett.
Link here that talks about what the home office is planning to do:
"The Home Office study which proposed a blanket ban on the sale of "legal highs" set out how potential new law could work.
Ireland introduced measures legislation tackling a proliferation of "head shops" - which offer a range of drug paraphernalia - in 2010.
The law made it an offence to advertise, sell, supply, import or export a psychoactive substance.
The blanket ban means that substances with a 'psychoactive' effect must have a specific exemption under the law, and anything which does not is illegal.
Legal substances which affect the brain's chemistry, including caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and prescription medicines, had to be exempted. "
>>7016 Which means they will force it through after the election.
As an illegal drug user, this pisses me off. 99% of legal highs are bobbins. Labelling them legal highs made me know to avoid them.
Only decent ones I can think of are Salvia and Nitrous Oxide. I think Salvia has been criminalised now, and NO2 is banned for "recreational purposes". Although that doesn't stop you being able to order a box of a few hundred capsules on Amazon every week.
So you're writing off all the 2c-Xs, the nbomes, and the RC benzos? Odd. RCs and legal highs are not all Hawaiian Baby Woodrose and useless herbal shit, you know.
Personally my interest is a definitively political one; who decides what and what isn't psychoactive? Who decides which psychoactives get an exemption and which ones don't? It's a brutal and uneven law basically designed to allow the government to ban whatever they want when they want. There will be little, if any, rhyme or reason as to how or where it's applied and that's my main problem with it.
>The blanket ban means that substances with a 'psychoactive' effect must have a specific exemption under the law, and anything which does not is illegal.
This is going to lead to some interesting prosecutions of legitimate seed and horticultural retailers stocking plants which have psychoactive effect but not commonly used for such effects.
From a completely non legal point of view pretty much unworkable
>>7021 Along with supermarkets, sports supplement stores, vitamin and health food shops, anywhere that sells any kind of aerosol, anywhere that sells various types of glue, or solvents... or lots of things really. I really can't wait to see nutmeg on the list of "approved psychoactives", for example.
Except that most likely none of these places will ever be prosecuted. It will be a back-handed law unevenly applied in order to persecute a particular type of vendor selling a particular type of psychoactive. It's essentially a carte blanche to suppress substances they don't like while happily legislating around or conveniently ignoring the ones they do.
Sage for almost straying into [/boo/ | /pol/] territory.
>>7019 I didn't know the 2C-x family were legal. Hoo boy, that will twist our melon.
Benzos and medicinal opiates are a fringe case. An exception to the rule.
Ketamine was a good one, so they made it illegal. Mcat was fucking terrible...don't know why anyone bothered. I tried it once, didn't like it, tried it twice to make sure then never touched it again.
>>7027 This would be the same legal system that failed to even watch a sex tape to work out that it wasn't a real tiger before indicting a man on bestiality charges.
I indulged in K the other night for the first time in yonks, then last last night I watched the latest South Park episode and thought "Jesus Christ whatever you do, don't watch this on K".
I know that when you're on K, every film/TV show looks like it was made for people on K but that episode of South Park looked like it was even when I was sober.
Unless I'm still in my room on K, thinking I'm watching south park and you're another lad who.... fuck you!
