First City Wide Legal High Ban In Lincoln

The UK’s first city-wide ban on people taking legal highs in public places takes effect in Lincoln.

17:42 01 April 2015

Lincoln has implemented the country’s first city-wide ban on people taking legal highs in public places. Non-compliant is a criminal offense and violators may be fined. Under the new rules, the police will have the authority to confiscate the substances from anyone thought to have taken them. 

 

Insp Pat Coates said he hopes the order will reduce anti-social behaviour.

 

Following the release of the public spaces protection order (PSPO), which was approved on February, Marley’s which stocked pipes and tobacco alongside legal highs, shut down voluntarily while Head Candy closed after receiving the community protection notice from the City of Lincoln Council. 

 

Legal highs are substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act. They produce the same or similar effects as ecstacy and cocaine. Although they are designed to mimic class A drugs, they are structurally different and are not classified as illegal substances. Selling them for human consumption is not allowed by law but they are sold with labels like plant food to get round the law. Most fall into three main categories: stimulants, sedatives or hallucinogens.