Banning legal highs: the biggest obstacle is the human brain

There has been considerable confusion and concern around new government plans to ban legal highs. Scientifically, the only solution is to ban the human brain

New government plans to crack down on and ban “legal highs” have a lot of people confused and worried. For a start, the government is essentially planning to make legal highs illegal, and thus creating a logical paradox. Anything covered by the new laws would become illegal, so would not a “legal” high, so wouldn’t be covered by the laws after all, so would be legal. So they would be covered the laws, but then become illegal…

Ironically, this sort of thinking will probably only make sense when you’re stoned out of your mind.

Thankfully (for a given value of “thankful”) the proposed legislation is a bit more detailed than this, in that it promises to ban trade in any substances for human consumption...

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http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/may/29/ban-legal-highs-neuroscience-theresa-may-psychology