Monday is the last day to give us feedback on legal highs

It's a tough job, trying to come up with some kind of guidance for the Ministry of Health to use when issuing licenses to retailers who want to sell psychoactive products (used to make legal highs) in the Coromandel.

You've probably heard now that we can't ban them, but we do get a chance to give the Ministry some guidance about where we all think they can and can't be sold here.

We have drafted a policy that we hope may solve the problem.

We'd really appreciate it if you take a look and give us your feedback on what we're thinking of recommending. When you take a look you'll see we've recommended restricting these retailers to certain areas within our main towns. (For example, not too close to places like schools, places of worship and community facilities, as well as to other premises that have a licence to sell psychoactive products.)

It is important to note that we will not be issuing those licenses, but rather, the Ministry of Health's Licensing Authority will be doing that. (You can find out what the Licensing Authority does athttp://psychoactives.health.govt.nz/ )

Our job is to make sure that the Licensing Authority has the best possible information on the location of retail premises when issuing licences, so let us know if you think we've done this when you submit.

What are psychoactive substances?

Psychoactive substances are some of the ingredients used in different drugs that affect the mind. You might know such drugs as:

• party pills

• herbal highs

• legal highs

• synthetic cannabis

• legal recreational drugs

Make a submission on our proposed policy

Click here to read and submit on the policy.

Submissions close this Monday (9 March 2015).

ENDS

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