Sunday, September 17, 2006

Crystal-Meth Reclassified in U.K.

Officials have moved to reclassify crystal methamphetamine as a Class A controlled substance, the highest restrictive class, The Guardian reported.

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommended the reclassification to Home Secretary John Reed, prompted in participation by the finding of a small number of neighbouring methamphetamine labs. British officials are watching the drug guardedly after seeing meth addiction whisk across the U.S. and Australia. Numerous experts foretell that meth use, now restricted mainly to gay clubgoers, will become commonplace in Great Britain within the next few years.

Immediately following, the Class A assignment gives the law run to aim both meth abuse and meth labs; as a Class B drug, meth is not the angle of any concerted police movement. Even if rates of use in the U.K. stay low at present-day, reclassifying crystal meth could maintain preemptive value in enabling police resources to be directed towards the drug as part of the tactic to centre on class A drugs.

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