New Zealand Meow Meow

Instead of trying to ban new drugs as fast as they are

created, New Zealand has taken a different

approach, it will allow synthetic drugs to be sold so long

as they pass safety trials.

It’s the first nation

to take a dramatically different approach to psychoactive

substances like party pills and synthetic marijuana… [that] go by names like bath salts, spice or

meow-meow.

In a 119-to-1 vote on Thursday, the country’s parliament

passed the Psychoactive Substances Bill, establishing a framework

for testing, manufacturing and selling such recreational

drugs.

The law does not overturn existing bans

such as on marijuana although that issue is likely to be revisited.

File this sentence under the culture that is New Zealand:

The drug law enjoyed broad support although there

was debate over whether animal testing would be required in the

clinical tests.