I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I would like to understand—maybe if I had heard some of the other amendments I would have understood, but I am not sure I would have done given the comments that have been made—how, if the police, for example, have seized a product which may or may not be a psychoactive substance, they assess whether it is going to have these effects on somebody’s brain. Do they feed it to a tame police officer, or to a young person whose brain may be less developed? How is this going to happen? Is that something that then has to be replicated in a court room? What is the process going to be for saying, “This is definitely a psychoactive substance”? How will they tell?
Psychoactive Substances Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Harris of Haringey
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 23 June 2015.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Psychoactive Substances Bill [HL].
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