I will not take that groan personally. To follow up on the intervention by the hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn), the hon. Lady may be interested to know that in Poland, where the same approach is being applied, the number of poisonings—this is about damage to young people—has gone up dramatically since the ban came in from 562 cases in 2010 to 1,600 in the first 10 months of 2014. Does that not give her cause to pause in supporting the Bill?
Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Norman Lamb
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 October 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords].
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