(29 May 2015, 11:01 pm)aureolin wrote I may have got the wrong end of the stick, but it looks like they're trying to rewrite the misuse of drugs act to accommodate this? The misuse of drugs act appears to ban substances by their chemical compound, so by changing the compound slightly, it'd potentially become legal again. I read the article as them banning anything that is a high, but then adding excludes for the likes of alcohol, caffeine and tobacco.
The problem with a complete ban is that the people determined to have them will find alternatives. There's not too much difference in the price between them and cheap (fake) ecstasy. This for example as a legal high replacement could present a much bigger problem.
I may have mis-read the article.
There will always be a way to circumvent the law in some way though.
When long-established 'illegal' highs pose less risks to users than the 'newer' legal highs available - you know there's something wrong somewhere.