Does not the right hon. Lady think that if we treat these nootropic drugs differently from all the other new psychoactive drugs, there is a danger that we give them some credibility or approval? There has been some research into their harm, or otherwise. The trials have been poorly designed, and they have not found any great dangers in them, but they would not be accepted as being right for a medicinal drug. I understand her constituent’s commercial interest, but would it not be dangerous to treat this group the same as any other and thereby give the public the impression that they are harmless, because we do not know that?
Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords]
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Paul Flynn
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 20 January 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords].
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