Crime lab experts decode the synthetic substances, to help list them as illegal drugs
Sharjah: Sharjah Police have discovered four modern types of synthetic drugs known as ‘Spice’, it was revealed on Saturday.
Col Al Mazmi said the Criminal Laboratory Department of Sharjah Police is the first criminal laboratory in the UAE to be able to identify what these new types of drugs are and the manufacturing methods used by the peddlers.
He added that a draft law is being worked on to include these substances in the schedule of the federal law on narcotics and psychotropic substances, the inclusion of which will help arrest the spread of these new drugs in the UAE.
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