Legal Highs

[ukanonymous]

What exactly are the dangers of legal highs? Mixing them with other substances? I was under the impression they would be purer. Obviously they are not regulated so not tested. But what are the deaths mainly caused by. Some of them look like they are trying to create a brand.

[fiction-factory]

I assume that for the more dangerous ones the dangers are similar to the dangers of illegal highs- the only difference being that they have not been declared illegal yet

[jno]

legal highs are just things that nobody's made illegal yet. That could be just about anything, each with its own pluses and minuses. Depending on the form you get them in they could be cut with anything at all, so there's really no way of telling.

[ukanonymous]

WEll I don't think they are going to be cut with knowingly harmful substances. This is because they synthesis chemicals that are similar to real drugs yet only vary by a few chemical structures. So they 'should' be the purest drug out there. However there have been deaths so I was wondering what they are from mainly if anyone knows? I don't think the death rate will ever catch up with the deaths caused by alcohol but obvioulsy there is still a risk.

[woofgang]

Why would you think that they are purer, safer or anything beneficial? Why would you think that they aren't going to be cut with (or be) harmful substances? "They"don't synthesise drug which vary from the real thing by only a few molecules, they just find things that aren't illegal to sell or possess, buy them from manufacturers or make them themselves and then sell them on as a legal high. If the substance itself is expensive, then "they" will cut it with just about anything they can.

[ummmm]

They'll cut them with anything. Completely naive to think they don't....that's why people die!

[The Builder]

Whatever the substance, someone, somewhere will have a bad reaction. It's sadly inevitable, but it's no reason for a blanket ban. People are dying from peanuts and lupins somewhere for heaven's sake.

Quite illogical when you think that something simple and natural, grown on your bathroom window sill is still illegal.

Governments need to stop reading the Daily Mail, and think for themselves.

[ukanonymous]

They'll cut them with anything. Completely naive to think they don't....that's why people die!

Actually if they were to cut them with poison they would be tracked down and put to jail. These are branded products remember that are readily for sale.

Dodgy drug dealers on the street can sell you anything as they are usually not traceable. You can trace the legal highs. So that statement is slightly naive I think. But then again its all about opinion I guess.

[ummmm]

And dealers can sell you drugs that are not traceable.

Dealers were selling meow meow...a cheaper alternative than cocaine.

Do you think they're registered or something?

[ukanonymous]

hardly legal then?

[scorpiojo]

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/doc-reveals-horrific-effects-of-legal-highs-160439n.23985978

[ummmm]

It was legal at the time.

[mccfluff]

just because something is legal it doesn't mean its safe to ingest. legal highs are cut with all sorts of stuff

[ummmm]

Sold as plant food!

[mccfluff]

bath salts...

[trt]

This has just been discussed for the past 30min on Ch3 with an audience on the O'Brien show.

Legal sellers, women whose son died of heart attack and doctors discuss.

[ukanonymous]

trt what were they talking about? What did the doctors say?

[trt]

ukanonymous,

A doctor said If you take it with alcohol it can be lethal. Shops who legally sell it are not allowed to warn people of the dangers.

The shop owner looked like a worn out hippie.

You can watch it again if you have catch-up.
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[trt]

Or Ch3 + 1

[ummmm]

They are not allowed to warn of the dangers because they are not suppose to be sold as legal highs. On the packaging it says 'not for human consumption'

[EDDIE51]

Some information here
http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/legal-highs
Remmber the people making these are intrested only in making money, they don't care if they kill people. They are covered because the sunstances they sell are labled as 'Not for Human Consumption'