XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:51:14 +0100, "The Todal"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"The Todal"  wrote in message   
   >news:7eics2F2g4vssU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>   
   >> "John Watson"  wrote in message   
   >> news:7ei9j4F2gj8utU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>I tried this stuff once - and only once - it's awful. At over £6/g it's   
   >>> more expensive than your local Vietnamese "skunk"!   
   >>>   
   >>> Once again our drug laws are based on ignorance.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Drug experts advise ban on Spice   
   >>>   
   >>> The government's drug experts today advised the home secretary to ban   
   >>> Spice, a herbal smoking mixture thought to be as strong as some strains   
   >>> of   
   >>> skunk cannabis.   
   >>>   
   >>> The decision, which the home secretary, Alan Johnson, is expected to   
   >>> endorse, marks the first official move to curb a burgeoning market in   
   >>> "legal highs". Sales of herbal drug substitutes that contain neither   
   >>> tobacco nor cannabis have grown rapidly through a network of online sites   
   >>> and backstreet "head shops".   
   >>>   
   >>> The government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) warns   
   >>> that   
   >>> Spice Gold, which is advertised as a herbal high and an "aromatic   
   >>> potpourri", is in reality far from innocuous. They say it contains   
   >>> synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of some of the more powerful   
   >>> active ingredients in cannabis.   
   >>>   
   >>> Professor David Nutt, the ACMD chair, said: "These are not harmless   
   >>> herbal   
   >>> alternatives and have been found to cause paranoia and panic attacks.   
   >>> That   
   >>> is why we are advising the government to bring a large number of   
   >>> synthetic   
   >>> cannabinoids under the Misuse of Drugs Act.   
   >>>   
   >>> "People need to know they pose a real danger and should not be seen as   
   >>> safe alternatives to illegal substances."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Wasn't Professor Nutt the very sensible chap who compared the risks of   
   >> cannabis to the risks of horse-riding and was condemned by all the stupid   
   >> politicians and Glenda Slaggs?   
   >   
   >Sorry - I think actually he compared Ecstasy with horse-riding but the point   
   >is still valid.   
      
   He got slagged off in the media by all the 'sensible' people for his   
   efforts, except that the professor was right and the 'sensible' people   
   were talking a pile of bollox.   
      
   Svenne   
      
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