“Many of these are actually really hazardous.”
He explained that it is “unhelpful” to describe the medicines as “legal highs”.
It comes as “legal high” merchants mentioned that they are setting up a trade association and known as on the Government to assist them regulate the business.
Mr Baker extra: “We’re in a race against the chemists of new substances getting produced nearly on a weekly basis in locations like China and India.
“They then come in right here and are inaccurately and unhelpfully known as legal highs – some of them are truly unlawful. They are certainly not necessarily risk-free and the word legal implies that they are protected. And individuals are consuming them and final yr I believe it was 68 individuals died, according to coroners reviews, from the ingestion of these substances.”
“My objective…is to minimise the harm from these substances to the public at huge,” Mr Baker mentioned.
Mr Baker has mentioned that he will defy an attempt by the European Union to regulate “legal highs”.
He explained that EU law-makers are not capable to cope with the “fast moving scene” about the thoughts-altering substances becoming offered on the net.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) mentioned deaths linked with the psychoactive substances jumped from 29 in 2011 to 52 in 2012, an 80 per cent rise. Final yr, it is believed that 68 men and women died due to the substances.
Even as not too long ago as 2007 the annual variety of deaths from the new synthetic drugs was in single figures.
Many of the so-referred to as legal highs – which give the consumer euphoric sensations equivalent to the drug Ecstasy – have been produced unlawful by the Home Workplace but the law struggles to hold pace with a proliferation of various kinds.
Synthetic medicines sold beneath the names Black Mamba and Mexxy were produced Class B drugs in 2012 and Theresa May, the House Secretary, authorised short-term bans on two other groups – Benzofury and NBOMe – in June.
Mephedrone, or miaow miaow, was made unlawful in 2010.
A boom in sites offering mind-altering substances by mail order for as minor as 10p a hit, and a network of large street suppliers, has created the United kingdom the legal medication capital of Europe, according to specialists.
Britain in a "race with chemists" in India and China generating "legal highs", minister says
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