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Letter to the Home Office regarding MDMA (‘ecstasy’) review.
Daniel, Matthew and Jenna Hackland were sentenced today for the illegal production and sale of class C drugs.
Letter to the Home Office about the new psychoactive substance Methiopropamine (MPA).
List of field safety notices (FSNs) from medical device manufacturers from 10 - 14 December 2018
Minister Rory Stewart opens Europe’s first zero-chemical, zero-power, metal mine water-treatment scheme
Employment Tribunal decision.
Packages of a powerful hallucinogenic drug have been intercepted in Coventry by UK Border Agency officers based at the city's postal hub.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A number of so-called ‘legal highs’ will become illegal class b drugs, the Home Office announced today.
A new temporary control power will be used for the first time to ban so-called legal high 'mexxy', the government announced today.
The government has sought advice from independent drug experts on whether to temporarily ban a substance being sold as 'safe ketamine'.
Ban on five substances will come into force at 00:01 on Friday 10 April for up to 12 months.
Two so-called ‘legal’ highs linked to deaths across Europe are set to be banned, the government announced today.
A number of so-called 'legal highs' will become illegal Class B drugs, the Home Office announced today
The government has used a temporary class drug order for the first time to ban the ‘legal high’ methoxetamine, also called ‘mexxy’ or MXE. From…
A new temporary control power will be used for the first time to ban so-called legal high 'mexxy', the Home Office announced today.
A 'legal high' will become illegal tonight when an order to temporarily ban it comes into effect.
A number of so-called 'legal highs' including Black Mamba and Mexxy became illegal Class B drugs today.
Coalition government takes range of action to respond to challenges of new psychoactive substances.
The government has referred the legal high 'mexxy' to drug experts in a move which could lead to a temporary ban.
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