Legal Highs

Eight Charged After Meow Meow Drug Raids

PA | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK

A businesswoman has been charged with drug dealing after the biggest ever police raids on suppliers of party drug meow meow. Former accountant and ...

Twelve Arrest In Meow Meow Drug Raid

PA | Posted 16.05.2013 | UK

Police have raided a suspected crime gang in the biggest operation to date to tackle dealing of party drug meow meow. Officers arrested 12 people b...

Amazon Selling Legal Highs

Mandy Saligari | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Mandy Saligari

Yes I think we should divert those busted for minor drug crime into treatment, but I absolutely do not see the point if all we are doing is increasing the users at the other end of the line. We need to contain from both ends - and places like Amazon should be slapped on the wrist.

Surge In Legal Highs Causing Rise In UK Hospital Admissions

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.03.2013 | UK

Designer drugs have led to a surge in UK hospital admissions, an international drugs agency has warned, as a report revealed a dramatic rise in the nu...

Cameron Urged To Consider 'Legalisation Of Drugs' By MPs

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.12.2012 | UK Politics

David Cameron has been urged by MPs to consider legalising and regulating drug use as part of wide-ranging public debate on the current strategies whi...

Legal Highs 'Mexxy' And 'Black Mamba' To Be Made Illegal

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.11.2012 | UK

Legal highs 'mexxy' and 'black mamba' are to be made illegal class B drugs with users facing up to five years in jail. The drugs are to be permanen...

Legal High 'Annihilation' Could Be Banned

Posted 11.10.2012 | UK

A potent legal high known as "Annihilation" could be banned, having left at least nine people in hospital over the last three months. The Advisory ...

MP Son In Court Over 'Legal Highs'

PA | Posted 14.09.2012 | UK

The son of a Labour MP who is alleged to have sold legal highs at a chain of shops will appear in court on Friday. Sean Ellman, 40, son of MP Louis...

'Legal Highs' and the Dangers of Bad Laws

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch | Posted 06.10.2012 | UK
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch

The governments in Europe can and should be expected to keep a watchful eye on new and potentially harmful substances and take legislative action if necessary. But they should also be careful to avoid inadvertently provoking the creation of an even more dangerous marketplace for 'designer drugs'.

Sarah Dean

RockNess 2012 Review: Biffy Clyro, Streakers And Cider

HuffingtonPost.com | Sarah Dean | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK Entertainment

Damp, cold and misty, RockNess music festival in Dores, on the shores of Loch Ness, drew to a close on Sunday night with a rousing performance from Sc...

Family Of Teen Who Died At Festival Warn On Legal Highs

PA | Posted 11.06.2012 | UK

The grieving family of a teenager who died after collapsing at a music festival issued a warning about the dangers of drugs as they paid tribute to th...

Two Friends Die 'After Taking Legal Party Drug'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.05.2012 | UK

Two friends who died within twelve hours of each other after allegedly taking the legal drug GBL have been named by police. Carl Fearon, 24, and Ly...

Michael Rundle

Is This Drug Helping Terror Networks To Target British Youth?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Rundle | Posted 04.04.2012 | UK

A legal - and potentially lethal - Somalian drug and cafe culture taking root in British cities may may be the next battleground in Britain's fight ag...

Legal Highs Ban 'Won't Make Much Difference'

PA | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK

Drug campaigners have backed the warning from police chiefs that new government powers to ban legal highs will not work. The UK Drug Policy Commiss...

What's a Legal High?

Rupert Wolfe-Murray | Posted 01.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Rupert Wolfe-Murray

Legal Highs are cocktails of legal chemicals which imitate the effects of illegal narcotics. They are the new generation of party drugs. But they are very different to the illegal substances that everyone has heard of because they are constantly evolving.

Why a New UN Resolution on 'Legal Highs' Matters

Damon Barrett | Posted 18.05.2012 | UK Politics
Damon Barrett

The Guardian/Mixmag drugs survey, published this week, highlighted the fact that there are many people out there using drugs without significant health harms. Among them are 'legal highs' or, more accurately, 'new psychoactive substances'.

First In Line: UK Is Cocaine Capital Of Europe

Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- The UK has been named the cocaine capital of Europe again as a report warned of the dangers of a changing drugs market. It is ...

Push To Tighten Laws Over Legal Highs After Study Showed Links To 127 Deaths

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.12.2011 | UK

Ministers have been urged to tighten the laws governing 'legal highs', as a study revealed almost 100 deaths were linked to the drug mephedrone over t...

First Clinic Opens For Users Of 'Club Drugs'

PA | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK

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