Home Office set to ban two drugs after recent deaths
TWO drugs linked to the death of young people will be banned under plans published yesterday.
The Home Office is looking at outlawing BZP – also known as herbal ecstasy – and GBL, an industrial solvent sold as a "legal high".
Hester Stewart, 21, died after taking GBL in Brighton last month. Her parents wrote to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ask her to change the law.
The Scotsman last month revealed a sharp increase in the number of reported cases of GBL addicts in Scotland.
A coroner called for BZP to be banned after the death of Daniel Backhouse, 22, a young mortgage broker, who mixed it with MDMA powder.
The changes would place the drug, which can cause serious heart problems, in Class C, and anyone caught dealing it could face up to two years in prison.
Originally a worming treatment for cattle, it can be bought online and is known to cause vomiting, anxiety attacks, mood swings and seizures.
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