Anti-legal high campaigners have backed the new law, which bans the dangerous substances. The Psychoactive Substances Act received its royal assent, meaning it has now become a law that will come into force this spring.
According to Newslocker, the Psychoactive Substances Act just got an agreement to become a law, with the act's powers will come into force in the spring. And MPs are claiming that banning legal highs is an important way in which it would help protect children from the potentially harmful drugs.
Blyth MP Ronnie Campbell even stated, "I've found that kids were buying this stuff, just going into shops and buying it, and there was no way to stop them." he added, There was a big outcry to get them out of shops, but there was profit to be made, so it kept going. These legal highs set children on the path to drugs, so it's a good idea to curtail them."
In August, Campbell also cautioned people that children were being persuaded into thinking that using them was safe because they were legal, after three Blyth teenagers were hospitalized when an experiment with legal highs went wrong.
Moreover, Chemistry World claimed that the UK government's Psychoactive Substances Act, which bans the New Psychoactive Substances, has received Royal Assent, or formal approval from the queen. The ban includes any substance intended for human consumption that can produce a psychoactive effect.
And those people caught producing or supplying these drugs may be faced with a maximum prison sentence of seven years. The measures are being introduced to tackle the rapid production of new legal highs which are not covered by an existing legislation.
The Northumbria Police has also debuted a crackdown on the sale of the substances, using their pre-existing powers to take hold of people caught using and supplying legal highs. They were also able to issue Community Protection Notices and Closure Orders to prevent the sale of legal highs, if they were found to lead to crime or anti-social behavior in communities, as reported by ChronicleLive UK.
For now, the new law banning legal highs is scheduled to take effect on 6 April this year. And under the new law, it will be expected that to produce, supply or import psychoactive substances is considered an offense.
