Home Secretary Theresa May's ongoing
blanket ban on legal highs include 'items that set the human mind on a higher
plane'. Church incense may be included in the list following the parameters of
the new law.
Fears of incense burning in churches,
temples and other religious edifices in Britain the Home Office may
criminalise. Religious advisers are warning about the implications of the new
laws, which could bring forth religious products in the spotlight and outlawed.
The Psychoactive Substances Bill
introduces seven-years jail time maximum for anybody promoting and using said
legal highs. The Home Office introduced the bill to stop the proliferation of
drugs blamed for youth deaths all over the United Kingdom.
The bill was originally drawn to
prevent producers and dealers to make minor change to the chemical composition of
substances to undermine new restrictions on legal high production.
However, the
blanket ban reaches towards Church incense, even new drug research where trial
patients may file claims against researchers for botched or undesirable side
effects despite waivers.
The Home Office listed caffeine,
alcohol and cigarettes as official exemptions from the bill's ban.
Religious officials are concerned
about a trial on mice wherein incense heightened the mood of several trial
mice. However, the Home Office said they would likely exclude incense because it
does not fit the "intentional" use of a substances "for
psychoactive effects."
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