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[Nickbat]

Interesting media storm blowing up over this.

We appear to have an MP's son selling the stuff:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2908146/Labour-MPs-son-is-meow-meow-drug-baron.html

The Sun is running campaign to ban it:

The Sun launched a "Ban Meow Now" campaign after the deaths of two teenage boys in SLady bitshorpe, Lincs, last week.

Scientific advisers are expected to urge the Government to bring in a ban on Monday. But Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman proved confusion still reigns by telling MPs yesterday it IS still legal - but SHOULDN'T be taken.


I wonder how many people realise that to ban the drug actually requires the EU's permission...

...and that would take at least three months.

Where's our sovereignty gone?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoidFzB8nzk[/media]

 

[pedroMV6]

We have no backbone as a country - Blair saw to that when he was in No.10. The EU has it in a jar by the window and it gets shaken every day to remind us of just who's in charge of Britain nowadays.

Personally, people MUST know the risks of taking "legal drugs" Meow Meow - or any other "drug".
Would you drink bleach - even if someone told you that the best "high" ever would be achieved? No - thought not.

Banning the stuff effectively puts it out of control, i.e., it goes through the Black Market.
Now, our government couldn't run a bath, so how would they control this if it was made illegal?

rather' idiots - at least as it is, they get more tax (blood?) money.

People would carry on with Meow Meow if they were that desperate for it - or find summat else to get off their faces with - it's human nature for alot of people.
Let 'em get on with it if they're stupid enough to want to, I say.

To ban that stuff, they might as well ban fags and booze and fuel - but they won't do that cos it's worth too much to them.

[Nickbat]

We have no backbone as a country - Blair saw to that when he was in No.10. The EU has it in a jar by the window and it gets shaken every day to remind us of just who's in charge of Britain nowadays.

Personally, people MUST know the risks of taking "legal drugs" Meow Meow - or any other "drug".
Would you drink bleach - even if someone told you that the best "high" ever would be achieved? No - thought not.

Banning the stuff effectively puts it out of control, i.e., it goes through the Black Market.
Now, our government couldn't run a bath, so how would they control this if it was made illegal?

rather' idiots - at least as it is, they get more tax (blood?) money.

People would carry on with Meow Meow if they were that desperate for it - or find summat else to get off their faces with - it's human nature for alot of people.
Let 'em get on with it if they're stupid enough to want to, I say.

To ban that stuff, they might as well ban fags and booze and fuel - but they won't do that cos it's worth too much to them.

Nooooo!!!!

[Nickbat]

But being serious for a second, these drugs are being taken by young kids, for whom the fear of death is nothing as long as the peer pressure is there.

They clearly shouldn't be legally available.

[pedroMV6]

But being serious for a second, these drugs are being taken by young kids, for whom the fear of death is nothing as long as the peer pressure is there.

They clearly shouldn't be legally available.

Yep, I see your point.
The moral victory has to lie in banning them from that viewpoint. Begs the question - is it the decay of society generally, or the apathetic ways of some parents that lead children to where we are now?
As a parent myself, I can be bothered to know what my daughter is getting up to......and she knows that.
Both my wife and myself have worked at our relationship with our daughter and always taken time to show/teach her anything we feel she needs to know, or answer any questions about anything she wants answering.
If we don't talk to her, there's probably plenty of weirdos, oddballs and general ne'er-do-wells that will!

[Psychoca]

I fully agree that something needs to be done, but, is banning it the solution???

As with everything that is banned, it only affects the law abiding..  Taking that in the picture, the likelihood is, that the criminal element will merely start selling it underground, with various additional impurities added to the mix...

Unfortunally it is a double edged sword, so a suitable level of balance is required....