Word: gbl
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...illegal drugs, from marijuana to ecstasy to cocaine. But not for long. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, the U.K. government announced it is set to ban these so-called legal highs by the end of the year. The ban on designer drugs such as stimulant BZP, narcotic alternative gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and cannabis imitator Spice is being described as a precautionary measure, with the aim of getting the substances off the shelves before they've gained much notoriety - and before thorough studies have been done on how much harm they do to users...
...instead of a blanket ban, the government is crafting several smaller laws to cover whole families of drugs. Cannabinoids will join marijuana as a Class B drug, which will mean fines or up to five years in prison for possession and up to 14 years for dealing. BZP and GBL, meanwhile, will be Class C: possession could lead to a fine or up to two years in prison, and dealing comes with a sentence of up to 14 years...
...with recent headlines showing that some legal highs are far from harmless, most in Britain are likely to support the new ban. Earlier this year, BZP was linked to the death of a 22-year-old British man who had reportedly also taken ecstasy. GBL, which is used legitimately as an industrial cleaning agent but is touted as a substitute for the outlawed date-rape drug GHB, has also garnered attention in the U.K. for its role in the death of a 21-year-old woman whose mother has crusaded to outlaw the chemical. "The key message to get across...
...game entered its tense final minutes, Ford took over, scoring 15 of Cambridge's final 17 points. The Falcons' All-Scholastic captain, this year's GBL Most Valuable Player, was all over the place, making steals, diving on the floor, shooting, passing and driving straight down the court to get clobbered in the lane by Holy Name players a foot taller than himself...
Under Dottin, who played with Robinson on the 1986 state championship team, CRLS has won four consecutive GBL titles, twice advancing to the Eastern Mass. title game...