NRG-1 is currently legal but stronger than cocaine and mephedrone
A NEW super-strength legal high which has already left one teenager needing hospital treatment is due to be outlawed in Jersey.
NRG-1 – a dance drug stronger than cocaine and former legal high mephedrone – could be banned later this year after health officials recommended it should be a class B drug.
The news comes just days after a 17-year-old boy was admitted to the Accident and Emergency department after falling ill shortly after taking the drug. He was later discharged following treatment for anxiety and breathing problems.
Article posted on 28th July, 2010 - 2.56pm
8 Article Comments
This will keep happening until we are allowed to use something legally.
As we ban new substances, the companies who produce them are forced to come up with new compounds that have not yet been banned.
Allow us to use something that has been tested and is safe and we will reduce the risk to people trying new untested drugs.
If extasy was made legal 5 years ago these new drugs would never have been introduced to the market. And this market will ALWAYS exist
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Its a sad state of affairs when people have to resort to drugs of any kind, just to enjoy themselves!
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Kage
You already have legal healthy options.
You can get a packet of fags, a Lt of vodka and some lighter gas for a tenner.
They will last you all night, a bargain.
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How often are teenagers left needing hospital treatment due to the effects of alcohol?
Alcohol, the orginal super-strength legal high.
Don’t see it getting banned in the near future though – too much juicy profit for the hypocrits in the form of taxes.
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Louise#
Is Alcohol not a drug?????
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Louise#
Is Alcohol not a drug!!!!!!
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‘Hypocrisy’ (comment 4)
Whilst I do agree with your sentiments, I feel that the reason alcohol is not banned is more due to the fact that it’s been around for so so long and accepted as being a part of society (perhaps unfortunately). If it were just down to the fact that the government receives large taxation from it, then surely it would be in everyones best interest to place a large tax on legal highs and enjoy the extra revene (and at the same time this would remove a great deal of business from the illegal drug dealers and indeed free up a lot of police resources). However this would be far too sensible and as such is unlikely to ever happen.
Personally I would much rather see alcohol banned altogether, and the ‘legal highs’ remaining legal, perhaps with a 21 age limit and government health warnings if deemed necessary.
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So one teenager was admitted to A+E suffering from a Panic Attack and this substance gets banned? I wonder how many youngsters have been been hospitalised after using Alcohol recently? Of course Alcohol will never get banned because it’s the Politicians choice of drug! Hypocrisy of the highest order…
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