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It doesn;t say much tbh which is a shame, I’d have liked to know more about this.

@General Lighting 974323 wrote:

I didn’t even realise there were any such shops left in my town (the other one stopped with selling NPS after the mephedrone scares). Looking at this case it appears the owner has been busted for not providing full chemical lists of the branded compounds and/or not removing from sale any that ACMD might have temp banned.

Ironically his own shops website has a link to a trade association for such shops which explains clearly and simply what they must comply with to stay in business.

Ipswich shop owner faces 27 charges over allegedly dangerous psychoactive substances – News – Ipswich Star

Its like here in my neck of America where every alcohol sale is supposed to be ID’ed at point of sale but at pretty much any bar you get a wristband from the door man and never get ID’ed at the bar, what you’re supposed to do to stay in business and what you do to stay and business often conflict.
@General Lighting 974329 wrote:

I expect you would have to look up the brand names of what he’s been pulled up for and match them up with any other info you can find. He probably didn’t know himself what is and isn’t banned these days

Archant to be fair are one of the more responsible news organisations when it comes to drugs/crime reporting; they have to juggle their right to free and open reporting with not accidentally facilitating the use of more harmful substances by publicising what is in them. Many of their reporters are young, inexperienced; under constant threat of redundancy and spread thinly across a very large region which seems to go from Norfolk to the outskirts of London – without reliable data from Trading Standards / NHS / cops they are unlikely to discuss the science in depth.

I can’t blame TS either even if they are holding back some info; just like the NHS they are a underfunded; overworked public sector organisation and worse often viewed with intense suspicion by all local business owners (even supposedly legit ones).

This same type of story (minus the legal high element) is often repeated in the local news; with some so-called “entrepreneur” being pulled up for sell fake footy shirts; dangerous mobile phone chargers, or other counterfeit good. Many actually start off legit but get into some situation where they cannot or will not put in the effort to run a business legit. There seem to be loads of these types unearthed in town and folk wonder why town centres in Britain are dying.

Almost everyone starts of legit but staying legit is a battle.