sadly its an unintended and unwanted consequence of devolution..
Scotland has its own specialist anti-drugs feds (SCDEA) and they were much quicker to act about stopping mephedrone than in England, in fact they started clamping down way quicker than this side of the border, using existing laws such as consumer/health and safety protection laws (one poster on here fell foul of these).
in fact they are the ones working with English authorities and already doing the CSI stuff to get all the new legal highs restricted, such as finding out the MDPV in some NRG-whatever deals.
Many Scottish people are very intelligent and tenacious – but that unfortunately applies to cops and govt scientists too..
Your countries authorities are way ahead of England and Wales on investigating legal highs… the cops/CSI in England haven’t even got round to testing the stuff being seized at the moment!
Don’t get me wrong, I think devolutions is really good idea as far as balancing fairness and freedom with keeping the UK together, but for drug users it hasn’t quite worked out like that Braveheart dude intended. (ironically I remember paranoia in England when devolution happened that the Scots would actually decriminalise drugs and the UK would be flooded!)
