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Chemistry World
June 26, 2013
Emma Stoye |
UN report warns of global rise in legal highs The latest World Drug Report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says governments around the world are struggling to cope with a growing number of legal party drugs.   |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2015 |
Synthetic cannabinoid poisonings surge in US US poison control centres have experienced a 229% increase in the number of calls related to synthetic cannabinoid use in 2015 compared with last year. |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2012
Hayley Birch |
Drive towards detecting drugs at the roadside The UK government is setting up an advisory panel that will assess the feasibility of roadside testing for drug driving, similar to testing for drunk driving. |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2015
Patrick Walter |
Legal in theory Governments around the world are faced with the particularly tricky problem of what they should do about 'legal highs'. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Ben Paynter |
The Big Business of Synthetic Highs Synthetic drugs that use legal compounds but mimic the highs of everything from marijuana to cocaine are proliferating among do-it-yourself pharma labs across the country. Bad trips - and fatal side effects - are increasing, too. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2013
Maria Burke |
'Legal high' production gathers pace New designer drugs are popping up in Europe at an unprecedented rate, sometimes on the illicit drug market and sometimes as 'legal' alternatives to controlled drugs, according to the latest report by the EU drugs agency. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2011
James Urquhart |
Synthetic cannabis drug test US researchers have developed a new urine test for detecting and quantifying some of the metabolites associated with synthetic cannabis. |
Chemistry World
June 8, 2015
Maria Burke |
Warnings that proposed UK blanket ban on 'legal highs' casts net too wide Some legal experts and scientists are warning that a proposed blanket ban on so-called 'legal highs' won't tackle the problem and may well hold back research into areas such as neuroscience. |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Justin Blum |
Cultivating Real Profits from Fake Weed Attempts by states to bar sales of substances that induce a marijuana-like high have been thwarted by nimble entrepreneurs. |
Chemistry World
May 29, 2015
Emma Stoye |
UK launches universal ban on legal highs New laws banning the sale and distribution of all legal highs -- or new psychoactive substances -- have been drafted by the UK government. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2014
Emma Stoye |
New Zealand in legal highs U-turn Politicians in New Zealand have decided to ban designer drugs from sale in the country, reversing an earlier decision to approve low risk drugs while new laws are put in place. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2015 |
High hopes The multi-target, rebalancing properties of cannabinoids also explains why they show promise as drugs in such a wide variety of conditions. |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Synthetic cannabis mimic found in herbal incense A chemical substance first synthesized in 1995 in a university lab in the US is now being used by young people around the world to legally achieve a marijuana-like high and is causing alarm among health officials in Europe. |
Chemistry World
July 9, 2015
Maria Burke |
UK 'legal highs' bill under fire from scientific community Calls are growing from the scientific community for home secretary Theresa May to amend the psychoactive substances bill. |
