About 500 people have been arrested since the ban on legal highs last May 28. Owners and sellers of light psychoactive drugs including nitrous oxide have been arrested.
The UK government confirmed that more cases of legal high substance abuse are in the courts. The drugs -- becoming the best choice for prisoners -- were banned as they are linked to the huge number of drug-related deaths in the country. As designer drugs, they are supposedly safe despite introducing similar effects cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy have on users.
A Milton resident has been arrested with a three and a half year sentence for possessing hundreds of nitrous oxide canisters during the Electric Daisy festival in the area. About 204 deaths were linked to legal highs in 2014, alarming the Home Office who had pushed for a ban on the use of the substances.
The Psychoactive Substances Act was introduced in May 28 that consequently shut down 332 “head shops” across Britain -- some having just stopped selling the drugs as their shops remained open. Offenders of the act could face long-term imprisonment of up to seven years.
Substances used in creating legal designer drugs are undisclosed, meaning they could be made from the same substances used to build original ones. Legal high drugs are still sold in the black market and the “deep web.”
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