The Great Repeal
Caffeine, nicotine, ethanol, cannabinoids, phenethylamines, cathinones, tryptamines, tropanes, barbiturates, opiates. They are all psychoactive substances acting on neurotransmitters. It's time for coherent legislation based on pharmacology and historical British wisdom.
Natural cannabis evolved with built-in safety mechanisms over millions of years. Synthetic 'spice' chemicals are 100x more potent lab creations which hijack the same brain receptors but without nature's safeguards—explaining why synthetics cause violence while real cannabis typically doesn't.
Until the UN's intervention in 1961 implementing failed US drug policy on a worldwide scale, the British Rolleston Era system effectively managed the question of endogenous human drug use as a medical concern. Suppressing distribution increased usage, and the UK results have been catastrophic.