Should the government ban all 'legal highs'?

wiseguy · 20-07-2010, 11:42

A BBC investigation has found dozens of new legal highs available online following the ban of mephedrone and naphyrone earlier this year. Does a ban ever work?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyours..._ban_lega.html

Spanglepants · 20-07-2010, 11:56

No........

DaFoot · 20-07-2010, 13:07

I'm firmly of the opinion banning something should be a last resort. We have too many people calling for banning so many things all the time it's pathetic.

In most cases there are laws that I would have thought could be applied without banning something specifically.

dervish99 · 21-07-2010, 08:36

Does that mean i cannot base jump whilst riding my bike of a cliff and listening to loud music???

wiseguy · 21-07-2010, 08:54

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Originally Posted by dervish99

Does that mean i cannot base jump whilst riding my bike of a cliff and listening to loud music???

nah thats ok lol

Hairyloon · 27-07-2010, 19:55

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Originally Posted by wiseguy

A BBC investigation has found dozens of new legal highs available online following the ban of mephedrone and naphyrone earlier this year.

The only reason kids are experimenting with dodgy stuff like that is because they can't get ecstasy easily enough.

wiseguy · 27-07-2010, 20:17

then it goes back to the original question lol
no matter what they ban somthing else will become available i think

Hairyloon · 28-07-2010, 09:28

The big advantage of ecstasy over anything new is that ecstasy has undergone extensive (if uncontrolled) field trials.
Billions of pills have been taken and they've killed virtually no-one.
Ecstacy is safer than peanuts.

*Peachy* · 29-07-2010, 08:47

I have never seen the point in banning such things, surely it would be better to be extensively tested and managed?? Users of such things will only find something to replace the banned substances, or continue to use but illegally. This is when these sort of things become dangerous, you never know how they've been made or with what.

roy james · 04-08-2010, 20:30

banning things doesnt work it simply moves in underground into the hands of the criminals.

Yog sothoth · 11-08-2010, 11:58

They banned the possession of magic mushrooms a few years back. What if I have them growing in my lawn?

wiseguy · 11-08-2010, 12:19

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Originally Posted by Yog sothoth

They banned the possession of magic mushrooms a few years back. What if I have them growing in my lawn?

never had them but i suggest you make a big pot of whatever it is you do with them