LEGAL HIGHS

That this House believes the Government Bill dealing with legal highs is an evidence-free and prejudice-rich example of legislative futility that will increase the deaths and use of drugs that it seeks to reduce; notes that the Bill's sponsors ignore the outcomes of similar laws in Ireland and Poland that have increased drugs use and encouraged migration to cocaine and heroin use; further believes that legal highs are uniquely lethal compounds that have never been ingested in the past by humankind and emphasises that when no obvious legislative remedies are available, legislators should resist knee-jerk laws that are gratifying to politicians but damaging to the health and well-being of the nation