I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I disagree. My local police are adamant that on the street, in the town centre, they have more powers to deal with things such as heroin use than they do to deal with these drugs, and obviously the sentencing powers available through the judicial system are different. At the moment, when the police deal with things such as Mamba and Spice in Mansfield town centre, they do not work on the basis of drugs offences, but use antisocial behaviour and criminal behaviour orders, because they do not have the opportunity, through drugs legislation, to record what we are discussing today as offences.
Synthetic Cannabinoids: Reclassification
Proceeding contribution from
Ben Bradley
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 6 November 2018.
It occurred during Debate on Synthetic Cannabinoids: Reclassification.
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