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Ferre
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: Scotland: Shops warned about drug equipment |
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Source: BBC News
Date: Friday, May 13, 2005
Subj: Shops warned about drug equipment
Police are warning shopkeepers of the consequences of selling drug paraphernalia.
The move follows the recent conviction of a Glasgow shopkeeper for selling equipment which police believe was going to be used to prepare drugs.
Some £3,000 worth of stock was seized, including  s, cannabis pipes and magazines about marijuana cultivation.
The Strathclyde force said it was the first conviction of its kind in Scotland, and possibly the UK.
Officers said they were aware that other shopkeepers in the area were selling equipment which they wrongly thought was lawful.
Each of the force's divisional drugs awareness officers will now identify and visit shops within their own areas to offer guidance on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
The act makes it an offence to supply any product which may be used in the administration or preparation of a controlled drug.
If the advice is not taken on board, the shopkeepers run the risk of being charged and having their stock seized.
Superintendent Alastair McKie, the force's drug co-ordinator, said: "I would urge all shopkeepers to think of the effects these products can have on our communities.
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"We are willing to offer advice and assistance regarding the sale of items which are of concern to us.
"In many instances those selling such equipment state that they didn't know that the equipment would be used to prepare controlled drugs.
"If this is the case then the officers will give advice and the shopkeeper can stop selling the equipment.
"However, if the officer returns to find the products still on sale the items may be seized and the shopkeeper risks being charged."
Detective Sergeant Kenny Simpson, from the force's drug squad, said it was not just smoking implements that were being sold.
'Snorting equipment'
"Snorting equipment, clearly designed for the administration of powdered drugs like cocaine, is also on sale," he said.
"Some of the shopkeepers claim such equipment is being used for snuff and that the smoking implements can be used for herbal highs, but it would be naive of me to accept that sort of defence.
"Some shopkeepers may also be under the delusion that what they are doing isn't really an offence as they see others doing it."
He added that the force's crackdown was in response to an increase in the amount of drug equipment now being sold.
"Drugs are very much to the fore for young people," he said.
"There is no point in us taking the drug awareness information into schools when the children can walk down the high street and see this kind of paraphernalia being sold in all kinds of shops."
Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4543879.stm
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| The act makes it an offence to supply any product which may be used in the administration or preparation of a controlled drug. |
This includes the ubiquitous di-hydrogen monoxide.
Known on the street as "water," this substance has known uses in the administration and/or preparation of almost every controlled drug known to humankind.
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Ferre
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| ...and magazines about marijuana cultivation. |
what's next? Public book burnings? Have books on how to grow a plant become illegal information?
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| The act makes it an offence to supply any product which may be used in the administration or preparation of a controlled drug. |
This includes the ubiquitous di-hydrogen monoxide.
Known on the street as "water," this substance has known uses in the administration and/or preparation of almost every controlled drug known to humankind.
Bliss on,
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come on now im pretty liberal but we cant take any chance of having our childen getting there hands on this melted ice. we have to do something.
think of the children please
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Fyrefly1
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We do live in a crazy world....
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you see what the problem is dont you ferre?
the english people are so scared they dont dare speak out or object.in fact they will fanaticaly support a moraly bancrupt political system just to prove they are on the 'right' side.just like people grassing their neighbors during nazizm or stalinism! thats why we have lost so many fundamental civil liberties and are condemed by organisations like amnesty international. things like the right to remain silent , the right to trial by jury , free association , freedom of imformation , data protection , etc etc etc.
thats why we have G.C.H.Q. spying on EVERY electronic communication in the northern hemisphere, indefinate detention without trial or access to legal representation in our new concentration camps , un-warranted property searches , etc etc etc.
in fact , me telling you this means i could be arrested and detained for up to 5 years without trial.!!!
sound like nazism to you?
dont worry if you didnt know any of this , neither does 99% of the population of this country!our 'free' press dosent seem to think its news worthy stuff.we look so nice and civilised from a distance dont we? now you know why our brothers and sisters over here need so much help!!! we need some sort of protection from prosecution BADLY. |
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Nazism is here. NOW!
I talk to people and they don't seem over-preoccupied.
What can we do? I had a Liberal Democrats sign in front of my house, still the Conservatives won in my bourogh, and they are not any better than the Labourists, the ones who won the elections. They have taken our rights It's already happened.
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