Wera Hobhouse suggested the Government should use the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to target online sales, in a bid to prevent young people from buying e-liquids containing the synthetic street drug spice. Advertisement Advertisement Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson warned spice-laced vapes are already “illegal” but admitted “further restrictions are needed” to combat the level of youth vaping . The Liberal Democrat MP led a Commons debate on spice-spiked vapes, after the University of Bath’s Professor Chris Pudney tested 596 vapes confiscated from schools in England and found 16.
6% contained the so-called “zombie drug” spice. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Newspapers in Kent and South London reported earlier in 2024 that pupils became ill after using vapes which may have contained spice across Herne Bay and Eltham.
Advertisement Advertisement Cleveland Police warned last year it had received reports of young people collapsing in a Middlesbrough school and “a number” of vapes were sent for spice testing, while North Yorkshire Police said its officers seized vape liquid from a Selby 17-year-old which contained synthetic cannabinoids. Labour has promised to revive the Tobacco and Vapes Bill in this year’s King’s Speech, after the previous Conservative government progressed plans to put limits and restrictions on .
