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| 'Legal highs' | This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances of... |
| 'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous' | New "legal highs" are being discovered at the rate of one a week, outstripping attempts to control their availability and exposing what so... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is fi... |
| Clubbers should be able to test their ecstasy | Media reports of two deaths at the weekend in the same party venue have once again been accompanied by police suggestions that the drug responsible is... |
| Drug laws and bans on legal highs 'do more harm than good' | The UK's "outdated" drug laws could be doing more harm than good and are failing to recognise that banning some "legal highs"... |
| Ecstasy is back in clubs as newly potent drug is taken with 'legal highs' | Ecstasy, the drug of choice for the clubbers of the early 1990s, is making a comeback. Once synonymous with the rave scene, its popularity declined ... |
| Expert Seminar on Herbal Stimulants and Legal Highs | A grey area has emerged between what is legal and what is not as states struggle with how to respond to the many new synthetic compounds emerging onto... |
| Is banning legal highs effective? | New psychoactive substances (commonly known as legal highs) are spreading across Europe with growing speed. Between 1997 and 2010 the early-warni... |
| Legal high battle shows need for drugs policy rethink | The Demos/UKDPC report Taking Drugs Seriously published today sets out clearly how legal highs have exposed the ancient Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MDA... |
| Legal high drug 'mexxy' banned under new government powers | A so-called legal high used as an alternative to ketamine will be the first drug to be banned under new government powers. Methoxetamine, or mexxy, wi... |
| Legal highs evade being banned as scientists run out of cash to test them | Scientists studying Britain's rapidly increasing number of synthetic recreational drugs are struggling to assess the risks they pose because mone... |
| Legal Responses to New Psychoactive Substances in Europe | This paper starts from the premise that, when a new psychoactive substance appears on the licit/illicit market in a country in Europe, legislators nee... |
| Let the qat out of the ban | Over half of EU countries, as well as the United States and Canada, ban the stimulant qat, a sort of mild amphetamine. But attempts to do so in Brit... |
| Mephedrone found not guilty, but the next legal high may be a killer | The mephedrone scare started at the end of 2009 when newspapers and the BBC reported that Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old girl from Brighton, had died ... |
| Mephedrone: still available and twice the price | Findings suggest that classification of mephedrone has had a limited effect on controlling its availability and use. Before the introduction of the ... |
| Mephedrone: the class D solution | The deaths of two young men in Scunthorpe last Monday that have been linked to the new "legal high" mephedrone (colloquially known as plant ... |
| Nieuwe publicatie van het Transnational Institute raadt de regering af khat te verbieden | De engelstalige briefing Chewing over Khat Prohibition rekent af met de effectiviteit van een ban, zoals is gebleken uit andere Europese landen. Probl... |
| Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs | This paper is intended to provide the basis for a discussion of policy options in dealing with new psychoactive substances that show signs of populari... |
| Rope a Dope: U.S. Anti-Terrorism Labs Enlisted in the War on "Legal" Synthetic Drugs | A worldwide arms race has erupted between inventive street chemists who concoct "legal" highs and government officials who wish to regulate... |
| Scientist's research produces a dangerous high | John W. Huffman, a professor of organic chemistry, unwittingly contributed to the spread of "designer marijuana" so potent that the Drug Enf... |
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