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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for possession of (a) psilocybin, (b) psilocin and (c) magic mushrooms in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been arrested for possession of (a) psilocybin, (b) psilocin and (c) magic mushrooms in each of the last five years.
Asked by
Ronnie Cowan
(Scottish National Party)
Answered by
Chris Philp
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
14 April 2023
For answer on
18 April 2023
Answered on
24 April 2023
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on arrests in England and Wales, available here: Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
However, this data is collected by wider offence group, e.g. “drug offences”, therefore data on arrests for more specific drug offences is not available.
Subjects
Arrests; Hallucinogens
Date
24 April 2023
Reference
180683
House
House of Commons
Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
Lead member
Baroness Featherstone
Answering member
Diana Johnson
Department
Home Office
Type
Debates on delegated legislation; Delegated Legislation Committee proceedings
Committee
First Delegated Legislation Committee
Legislation
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014
Subjects
Drugs; Misuse; Personal, social, health and economic education; Hallucinogens
Date
1 December 2014
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on the criminalisation of salvia divinorum.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her policy is on the criminalisation of salvia divinorum.
Asked by
Lord Mann
(Labour)
Answered by
James Brokenshire
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
20 June 2011
For answer on
22 June 2011
Answered on
27 June 2011
Salvia divinorum is not subject to control under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) continue to keep salvia divinorum under review, as part of its work on new psychoactive substances.
Subjects
Drugs; Misuse; Hallucinogens
Date
27 June 2011
Reference
61737; 530 c579W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will review the legal status of salvia divinorum.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will review the legal status of salvia divinorum.
Asked by
David Jones
(Conservative)
Answered by
Alan Campbell
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
23 April 2009
For answer on
28 April 2009
Answered on
28 April 2009
At the Home Secretary's request, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is reviewing the availability and harms of psychoactive legal alternatives to illegal drugs, so called 'legal highs', with a particular focus on protecting young people. I fully anticipate that this work will include salvia divinorum.The Government's position on their control will be informed by Advisory Council's advice.
Subjects
Hallucinogens
Date
28 April 2009
Reference
491 c1200-1W; 271514
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the health effects of salvia divinorum; and if she will make a statement;
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what research her Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the health effects of salvia divinorum; and if she will make a statement;
Asked by
Lady Hermon
(Ulster Unionist Party)
Answered by
Phil Woolas
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
1 April 2009
For answer on
20 April 2009
Answered on
20 April 2009
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has recently written to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs requesting that it provide advice to Government on the availability and harms of psychoactive legal alternatives to illegal drugs, so called "legal highs", with a particular focus on protecting young people. I fully anticipate that this work will include Salvia Divinorum. The Government's position on its control will be informed by Advisory Council's advice.
Subjects
Hallucinogens
Date
20 April 2009
Reference
491 c226W; 268961
House
House of Commons
(2) if she will classify salvia divinorum as an illegal drug.
(2) if she will classify salvia divinorum as an illegal drug.
Asked by
Lady Hermon
(Ulster Unionist Party)
Answered by
Phil Woolas
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
1 April 2009
For answer on
20 April 2009
Answered on
20 April 2009
My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has recently written to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs requesting that it provide advice to Government on the availability and harms of psychoactive legal alternatives to illegal drugs, so called "legal highs", with a particular focus on protecting young people. I fully anticipate that this work will include Salvia Divinorum. The Government's position on its control will be informed by Advisory Council's advice.
Subjects
Hallucinogens
Date
20 April 2009
Reference
491 c226W; 268962
House
House of Commons
The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a series of provisions. The Home Office published research in 2007 that identified the positive effect of the Act in improving the grip that the Government exert on drug-using offenders, through the drug interventions programme, by getting larger numbers of drug users to enter drug treatment. Following our clarification in the Act of the law on magic mushrooms, the British crime survey 2006-07 showed a decrease in use in the past year across all age ranges, with a significant decrease among 16 to 24-year-olds, from 3 to 1.8 per cent.
The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a series of provisions. The Home Office published research in 2007 that identified the positive effect of the Act in improving the grip that the Government exert on drug-using offenders, through the drug interventions programme, by getting larger numbers of drug users to enter drug treatment. Following our clarification in the Act of the law on magic mushrooms, the British crime survey 2006-07 showed a decrease in use in the past year across all age ranges, with a significant decrease among 16 to 24-year-olds, from 3 to 1.8 per cent.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
What assessment she has made of the effects of the Drugs Act 2005.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c9
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Wakefield's police, who this year alone have shut down not one but eight cannabis factories in residential properties in Pinderfields road, Wesley street and on Bradford road, just a few doors down from where I live? Does he agree that we need to do more to shut down hydroponics shops that have sprung up in all sorts of places and which provide the seeds and the hardware kit that allow organised gangs of criminals to come in, use people who have been trafficked, and put the plague of cannabis on to our streets?
Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Wakefield's police, who this year alone have shut down not one but eight cannabis factories in residential properties in Pinderfields road, Wesley street and on Bradford road, just a few doors down from where I live? Does he agree that we need to do more to shut down hydroponics shops that have sprung up in all sorts of places and which provide the seeds and the hardware kit that allow organised gangs of criminals to come in, use people who have been trafficked, and put the plague of cannabis on to our streets?
Asked by
Mary Creagh
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 June 2008
First, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my hon. Friend back to the House from her leave. We all welcome her back.
In similar vein to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), my hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of taking action against cannabis factories and cannabis farms. As I said, the reclassification of cannabis will make a huge difference. In the same announcement in which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced reclassification, she also announced that the Government would look into the issue of hydroponics, cannabis seeds and the impunity with which some shops sell paraphernalia which is often not for any other purpose. I hope that that review will start to answer some of the questions that my hon. Friend raised.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime prevention; Crime; Cannabis; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10-1
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
In a house in the centre of Macclesfield, in Bridge street, 17,000 cannabis plants were found. They were found only because the electricity system that was helping the plants to grow could not cope with the demand, a fire occurred and the fire service went in. Does the Minister accept that if more police were on the beat—on the street—going past such properties, that sort of thing would not occur, and that the police have a role in trying to ensure that drugs which are killers are not grown in the middle of a town such as Macclesfield?
In a house in the centre of Macclesfield, in Bridge street, 17,000 cannabis plants were found. They were found only because the electricity system that was helping the plants to grow could not cope with the demand, a fire occurred and the fire service went in. Does the Minister accept that if more police were on the beat—on the street—going past such properties, that sort of thing would not occur, and that the police have a role in trying to ensure that drugs which are killers are not grown in the middle of a town such as Macclesfield?
Asked by
Nicholas Winterton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 June 2008
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and of course police on the street make a real difference. I shall be meeting the Association of Chief Police Officers to discuss cannabis farms and factories, which are a major worry for us all. The hon. Gentleman will have heard my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in her announcement that the Government would reclassify cannabis from class C to class B, which will also help with police priorities, say that she would organise a meeting with the electricity companies and others to consider whether there is any way we can identify domestic properties that do not have a normal domestic bill, for obvious reasons, and take appropriate action. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime prevention; Crime; Cannabis; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
That Act was passed with all-party approval—always a worrying sign—shortly before the last general election, when all parties wanted to appear tough on drugs. One of its provisions put magic mushrooms in exactly the same category as heroin—a tough decision, but a very stupid one. How many young people have been criminalised and imprisoned under that new provision?
That Act was passed with all-party approval—always a worrying sign—shortly before the last general election, when all parties wanted to appear tough on drugs. One of its provisions put magic mushrooms in exactly the same category as heroin—a tough decision, but a very stupid one. How many young people have been criminalised and imprisoned under that new provision?
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
9 June 2008
As I have just said, since the passage of the Act the percentage of young people using magic mushrooms has fallen from 3 to 1.8 per cent. Significant increases in the import of fresh magic mushrooms to this country led the Government to take the action that they did. I know that my hon. Friend believes we should be doing other things, as well as taking action through legislation. He will have seen that the latest drugs strategy deals with many of the things for which he has long been calling—improved treatment, access to support for families, and many other measures that I know he believes also make a difference.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Hallucinogens; Rehabilitation
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
First, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my hon. Friend back to the House from her leave. We all welcome her back.
In similar vein to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), my hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of taking action against cannabis factories and cannabis farms. As I said, the reclassification of cannabis will make a huge difference. In the same announcement in which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced reclassification, she also announced that the Government would look into the issue of hydroponics, cannabis seeds and the impunity with which some shops sell paraphernalia which is often not for any other purpose. I hope that that review will start to answer some of the questions that my hon. Friend raised.
First, it would be remiss of me not to welcome my hon. Friend back to the House from her leave. We all welcome her back.
In similar vein to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), my hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of taking action against cannabis factories and cannabis farms. As I said, the reclassification of cannabis will make a huge difference. In the same announcement in which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced reclassification, she also announced that the Government would look into the issue of hydroponics, cannabis seeds and the impunity with which some shops sell paraphernalia which is often not for any other purpose. I hope that that review will start to answer some of the questions that my hon. Friend raised.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Mary Creagh
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating Wakefield's police, who this year alone have shut down not one but eight cannabis factories in residential properties in Pinderfields road, Wesley street and on Bradford road, just a few doors down from where I live? Does he agree that we need to do more to shut down hydroponics shops that have sprung up in all sorts of places and which provide the seeds and the hardware kit that allow organised gangs of criminals to come in, use people who have been trafficked, and put the plague of cannabis on to our streets?
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10-1
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
As I have just said, since the passage of the Act the percentage of young people using magic mushrooms has fallen from 3 to 1.8 per cent. Significant increases in the import of fresh magic mushrooms to this country led the Government to take the action that they did. I know that my hon. Friend believes we should be doing other things, as well as taking action through legislation. He will have seen that the latest drugs strategy deals with many of the things for which he has long been calling—improved treatment, access to support for families, and many other measures that I know he believes also make a difference.
As I have just said, since the passage of the Act the percentage of young people using magic mushrooms has fallen from 3 to 1.8 per cent. Significant increases in the import of fresh magic mushrooms to this country led the Government to take the action that they did. I know that my hon. Friend believes we should be doing other things, as well as taking action through legislation. He will have seen that the latest drugs strategy deals with many of the things for which he has long been calling—improved treatment, access to support for families, and many other measures that I know he believes also make a difference.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
That Act was passed with all-party approval—always a worrying sign—shortly before the last general election, when all parties wanted to appear tough on drugs. One of its provisions put magic mushrooms in exactly the same category as heroin—a tough decision, but a very stupid one. How many young people have been criminalised and imprisoned under that new provision?
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and of course police on the street make a real difference. I shall be meeting the Association of Chief Police Officers to discuss cannabis farms and factories, which are a major worry for us all. The hon. Gentleman will have heard my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in her announcement that the Government would reclassify cannabis from class C to class B, which will also help with police priorities, say that she would organise a meeting with the electricity companies and others to consider whether there is any way we can identify domestic properties that do not have a normal domestic bill, for obvious reasons, and take appropriate action. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and of course police on the street make a real difference. I shall be meeting the Association of Chief Police Officers to discuss cannabis farms and factories, which are a major worry for us all. The hon. Gentleman will have heard my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, in her announcement that the Government would reclassify cannabis from class C to class B, which will also help with police priorities, say that she would organise a meeting with the electricity companies and others to consider whether there is any way we can identify domestic properties that do not have a normal domestic bill, for obvious reasons, and take appropriate action. I hope that that reassures the hon. Gentleman.
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Asked by
Nicholas Winterton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
In a house in the centre of Macclesfield, in Bridge street, 17,000 cannabis plants were found. They were found only because the electricity system that was helping the plants to grow could not cope with the demand, a fire occurred and the fire service went in. Does the Minister accept that if more police were on the beat—on the street—going past such properties, that sort of thing would not occur, and that the police have a role in trying to ensure that drugs which are killers are not grown in the middle of a town such as Macclesfield?
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
What assessment she has made of the effects of the Drugs Act 2005.
What assessment she has made of the effects of the Drugs Act 2005.
Asked by
Paul Flynn
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
3 June 2008
For answer on
9 June 2008
Answered on
9 June 2008
The Drugs Act 2005 introduced a series of provisions. The Home Office published research in 2007 that identified the positive effect of the Act in improving the grip that the Government exert on drug-using offenders, through the drug interventions programme, by getting larger numbers of drug users to enter drug treatment. Following our clarification in the Act of the law on magic mushrooms, the British crime survey 2006-07 showed a decrease in use in the past year across all age ranges, with a significant decrease among 16 to 24-year-olds, from 3 to 1.8 per cent.
Legislation
Drugs Act 2005
Subjects
Crime; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Rehabilitation; Hallucinogens
Date
9 June 2008
Reference
477 c9; 208946
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Hallucinogenic mushroom control in the European Union. 5 p.
Hallucinogenic mushroom control in the European Union. 5 p.
Deposited by
Home Office
Type
Deposited papers
Author
Home Office
Committed on
15 August 2007
Received on
15 August 2007
Subjects
Health; Drugs; Misuse; Mushrooms; Hallucinogens
Lords Library location
HINF 2007/1660
Date
15 August 2007
Reference
HINF 2007/1660
House
House of Commons
(3) how many deaths have been caused by (a) psilocin and (b) psilocybin in each of the last 10 years.
(3) how many deaths have been caused by (a) psilocin and (b) psilocybin in each of the last 10 years.
Asked by
Brian Iddon
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 June 2006
For answer on
19 June 2006
Answered on
11 July 2006
The classification of psilocin and psilocybin has not been reviewed by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The classification of psilocin and psilocybin as Class A drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, since that Act came into force on 1 July 1973, reflects the United Kingdom’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971. Psilocin and psilocybin (and many similar drugs) were included in Schedule one to the 1971 Convention, reflecting international consensus that these substances should be subject to the highest level of control. HM Government placed these substances in Part I of Schedule two to the 1971 Act as Class A drugs. The information on deaths from psilocin and psilocybin is not held.
Subjects
Hallucinogens
Date
11 July 2006
Reference
448 c1788W; 78998
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he last asked the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs to review the classification of (a) psilocin and (b) psilocybin;
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he last asked the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs to review the classification of (a) psilocin and (b) psilocybin;
Asked by
Brian Iddon
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 June 2006
For answer on
19 June 2006
Answered on
11 July 2006
The classification of psilocin and psilocybin has not been reviewed by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The classification of psilocin and psilocybin as Class A drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, since that Act came into force on 1 July 1973, reflects the United Kingdom’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971. Psilocin and psilocybin (and many similar drugs) were included in Schedule one to the 1971 Convention, reflecting international consensus that these substances should be subject to the highest level of control. HM Government placed these substances in Part I of Schedule two to the 1971 Act as Class A drugs. The information on deaths from psilocin and psilocybin is not held.
Subjects
Hallucinogens
Date
11 July 2006
Reference
448 c1788W; 79000
House
House of Commons
(2) what criteria were used for the classification of (a) psilocin and (b) psilocybin as class A drugs;
(2) what criteria were used for the classification of (a) psilocin and (b) psilocybin as class A drugs;
Asked by
Brian Iddon
(Labour)
Answered by
Lord Coaker
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
15 June 2006
For answer on
19 June 2006
Answered on
11 July 2006
The classification of psilocin and psilocybin has not been reviewed by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The classification of psilocin and psilocybin as Class A drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, since that Act came into force on 1 July 1973, reflects the United Kingdom’s implementation of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971. Psilocin and psilocybin (and many similar drugs) were included in Schedule one to the 1971 Convention, reflecting international consensus that these substances should be subject to the highest level of control. HM Government placed these substances in Part I of Schedule two to the 1971 Act as Class A drugs. The information on deaths from psilocin and psilocybin is not held.
Subjects
Hallucinogens
Date
11 July 2006
Reference
448 c1788W; 78997
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested, (b) prosecuted, (c) convicted and (d) imprisoned for possession of magic mushrooms in the last period for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested, (b) prosecuted, (c) convicted and (d) imprisoned for possession of magic mushrooms in the last period for which figures are available.
Asked by
David Davis
(Conservative)
Answered by
Hazel Blears
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
30 January 2006
For answer on
1 February 2006
Answered on
7 March 2006
The requested data are not collected centrally.
Subjects
Mushrooms; Hallucinogens
Date
7 March 2006
Reference
47709; 443 c1313W;443 c1313W
House
House of Commons
Whether as a result of recent changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (a) landowners may be unwittingly committing an offence if they have fungi growing on their land which contains psilocin; (b) students of fungi may also be committing an offence if they collect such fungi; or (c)...
Whether as a result of recent changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (a) landowners may be unwittingly committing an offence if they have fungi growing on their land which contains psilocin; (b) students of fungi may also be committing an offence if they collect such fungi; or (c)...
Asked by
Lord Beaumont of Whitley
(Other (affiliation))
Answered by
Baroness Scotland of Asthal
(Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Answered on
3 March 2006
The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 provide exceptions from the offence of possession of psilocybe fungi. The regulations make clear under what circumstances it is not unlawful to possess magic mushrooms. The regulations also enable my right honourable friend, the Home Secretary, to issue a licence in respect of the production, supply, offer to supply or possession of psilocybe fungi for research purposes rather than for general use. A person does not commit an offence of possession of psilocybe fungi if the mushrooms are growing uncultivated on their land. A person does not commit an offence of possession if they pick psilocybe fungi for disposal (that is, for destruction or delivery to a person who can lawfully take custody of them) as soon is reasonably practicable and holds them in accordance with that purpose. The Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, for example, is licensed to lawfully take custody of psilocybe fungi for botanical and research purposes. There is no obligation on landowners to remove psilocybe fungi which are growing uncultivated on their land.
Legislation
Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005
Subjects
Mushrooms; Hallucinogens
Date
3 March 2006
Reference
4288; 679 c107-8WA
House
House of Lords