Solutions synthétiques: la réponse mondiale aux nouvelles substances psychoactives

Pays après pays, une vaste gamme de substances psychoactives s’est rapidement répandue sur internet. Elle chamboule aussi bien les législateurs que les politiciens, qui sont en train de considérer l’exemple de la récente législation néo-zélandaise. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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The proliferation of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and legal highs has changed the drug world forever and thrown a spanner into the Drug War machinery.

This armoury of chemicals, and the way they are produced and sold, has left policy makers dazed and confused amid a hail of chemical formulae, brands, legal loopholes, underground chemistry labs, virtual currencies and online encryption.

At the start of the Drug War, the enemies were more honest, simply made from plants. Later came LSD, speed and ecstasy, which were made in labs, but everyone knew what they were. Then the NPS revolution happened in the 2000s, and the enemy had changed.

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