The English Guy's Personal Blog » gbl http://www.richarddows.co.uk a witty tagline explaining that I write mostly anything I feel on here so you've been warned: caveat lector Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:55:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 UK Bans GBL, But Not Alcohol/Tobacco http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2009/12/23/uk-bans-gbl-but-not-alcoholtobacco/ http://www.richarddows.co.uk/2009/12/23/uk-bans-gbl-but-not-alcoholtobacco/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:26:33 +0000 richard http://www.richarddows.co.uk/?p=1195 The UK has now made GBL a Class C drug. This, after a student named Hester Stewart died after having taken it. It was legal, and because she died, or at least contributing to it, it is now illegal.

Questions arise though. GBL is a solvent – what about those products that use GBL in them? Inks in industrial printers, they use GBL in significant quantities, are they to be changed to another solvent because of this? Are we to throw away those products that we have that contain it?

Also, why doesn’t the government put alcohol and tobacco into the same categories? Many MANY more die because of them each year, but they’re still legal. Doesn’t make sense does it?

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