Dunne rolls over first 16 temporary drug notices
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne is rolling over the Temporary Class Drug Notices on the first 16 banned synthetic cannabis substances, banning them for a further 12 months as their notices were due to expire this week.
The Notices were initially for 12 months, but Mr Dunne has begun rolling over the first of the 28 Notices on substances banned in the last year, with the other substances’ bans to be extended as they fall due over coming months.
The original Notices on the first 16 substances – listed for renewal in The Gazette this week – were due to expire on Thursday, 16 August.
Mr Dunne said he was doing so to ensure no banned substance – or the more than 50 products containing them – slip back into the market before permanent psychoactive legislation, announced last month, is in place by mid next year.
“This is about making sure there is no gap for those who may look to bring substances back on the market before the new law forces them to prove their products are safe,” he said... Read the full text of this article.
