Amphetamines

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 22 March 2004.

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Photo of John Mann John Mann Labour, Bassetlaw 2:30, 22 March 2004

Since 1995, we have had a tenfold increase in the volume of police raids involving amphetamines. Australia and New Zealand have found in that time span that amphetamines have become their largest single drug problem. As the drug can be made in the back of a van—it is a home-produced synthetic drug—is it not time that we upgraded it to a class A drug in exactly the same way as Australia and New Zealand have had to do in the past few years?