FG warns on new head shop drugs

FINE GAEL has said urgent legislation is needed to ensure no new drugs could be sold in head shops without the approval of food or medicine authorities.

Health spokesman Dr James Reilly made the call after he showed an Oireachtas Committee on Health a head shop product containing a cocaine substitute not covered in the ban on legal highs introduced suddenly on May 11.

“I warned at the time of the Government’s ban on certain head shop substances that new substances would quickly come along to replace them,” said Dr O’Reilly.