A TOTAL ban on all legal highs could be in place in Jersey by the end of the year, according to Health Minister Jim Perchard.
He told the States this week that Jersey had been leading the way in tackling ‘this new and disturbing drug’.
The news comes just months after the JEP revealed that teenage festival-goers were taken to hospital after adverse reactions to so-called ‘legal highs’ that were on sale at Jersey Live last September.
This sparked an investigation after a senior healthcare professional, who was also at the event, raised concerns about their availability. Since then the controversial legal high Spice, which can be smoked as a substitute for cannabis, has been banned from sale in shops in Jersey.
In the States this week Deputy Kevin Lewis asked the Health Minister what he was doing to ban legal highs in the Island.
Senator Perchard said that they hoped to make legal highs illegal by the end of this year.
Pictured: Spice was openly on sale at Jersey Live last year. A ban on similar drugs may now be in place by the end of 2009
