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An over-egged pudding
FACED with an ever-growing list of substances its citizens are ingesting to get high, the UK government has decided it would be easier to ban every psychoactive substance by default, and instead create a list of mind-altering chemicals that British subjects are permitted to consume, such as tea (20 June).
Despite the government’s own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) writing to the Home Secretary to warn that this is “unenforceable” (18 July), the bill has now progressed …