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Published: 17 September 2013
The European Commission today, September 17, 2013 proposed to strengthen the European Union’s ability to respond to ‘legal highs’ – new psychoactive substances used as alternatives to illicit drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy.
Under the rules proposed by the Commission today, harmful psychoactive substances will be withdrawn quickly from the market, without jeopardising their various legitimate industrial and commercial uses.
The proposals follow warnings from the EU's Drugs Agency (the EMCDDA) and Europol about the scale of the problem and a 2011 report which found that the EU’s current mechanism for tackling new psychoactive substances needed bolstering.
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This piece of news will be particularly interesting for our Latvian colleagues. As we mentioned in the previous article, Latvian market is full of illegal psychoactive substances and the legislative authorities experience remarkable difficulties countering the challenge today.