Comment · Fri, January 22, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
How concerned should we be about the UK Psychoactive Bill?
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Cartesian_Dualism · 6 points
Looking at the bill in its current state, it appears as though it's going to blanket ban literally anything and everything defined as "psychoactive" by default unless specifically exempted - which, unless I'm missing something, seems so ludicrously vague that I'm struggling to even imagine how it's going to be enacted. There was a recent attempt to amend the draft to include a short list of exemptions for racetams and other nootropics (L-Theanine, choline, etc), but it doesn't seem clear yet if it's been made official or not.
I'm wondering what this is going to mean not just for nootropics, but also supplements on the whole. Just how much is this going to affect if, or perhaps when at this point, it passes?
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theskepticalidealist · 1 points
If you saw the debate where she said this she also said she didn't know what she was talking about and someone claimed they wouldn't want to endorse some substances in case they might be found to be detrimental in the future. Because apparently they wouldn't want to look like they're "endorsing" a substance by not banning it, but literally allowing alcohol and cigarettes to be legal apparently is just fine. I can't stand these idiots, I literally see nothing but people trying to dress up a feelings based position up with what they think are logical sounding arguments. Not a single person arguing for the ban has showed they can be consistent and that's including the more reasonable members of the committee. And they're just allowed to get away with it! On Wednesday over and over we heard them say the bill is intending to ban "drugs that kill", but that's utter rubbish because they intent to exclude substances we know kill and include substances drugs that don't. I think if their logic in their arguments aren't consistent they should be considered inadmissible, yet they're allowed to do this and build on top of it until they have a bullshit mountain built on bullshit. If this was how we forced these proceedings to go we'd end up with lot less dumb stuff like this bill ever getting off the drawing board.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Yeah, I read through the transcripts. The argument was brought up that they would not be endorsing them. They would just not be banning them. It's dumbfounding that people don't know the difference. If that was the case, they are literally endorsing lung cancer and cirrhosis.