A new legal high has surfaced in which the Tory Crime Prevention Minister, James Brokenshire, has advised that they will fast-track bans on emerging legal highs.  Since the ban of mephedrone, also known as ‘miaow miaow’, new legal highs are begining to surface and if not careful, could potentially flood the market.  Brokenshire said:  ”We are going to change our drug laws so we can respond quickly to emerging substances by introducing a temporary ban while we seek full scientific advice.”

Following the heels of the Chinese factories who are working on the manufacture of new legal highs, the Home Office have announced that they were closing down the loophole that would allow this.

A Home Office spokesman said: “We are planning to introduce a system of temporary bans for new emerging ‘legal highs’. Temporary bans will allow us to make substances illegal while we seek full scientific advice.”

Former government chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt said that banning the drugs would never work. He suggested a controlled use of the substances was more effective, saying: “some regulated access, along the coffee shop model for cannabis in the Netherlands I think will have to come.”

Some drug campaigners believe that education on the risks of so-called legal highs would be a more effective way of dealing with the new wave of drugs.