it still took barely a month with mephedrone, and the only backlash I am seeing from the drone ban (other than from owners of headshops, online sellers and a few liberal scientists and journos) are people complaining it wasn’t banned quickly enough…
whilst the new government is budgeting for a year for the “class D” law, I think the cops and other authorities have realised that they can still disrupt the sellers anyway under existing legislation (health and safety/trading standards) and even common law arguments they are protecting people from harm.
HMRC were seizing mephedrone without warning or compensation long before it was banned. When the importers rang to complain they were simply ignored.
Contrary to popular misconception it is not that easy for public sector workers to ignore customer complaints (as they can always be escalated, and all communications made to government offices are logged) unless their entire chain of management is standing behind them.
I’ve noticed some very good, reliable “drugs by post” companies shut up shop recently or have serious supply chain problems. these are places with good reps, not sketchy kids what took too much of their own merchandise..
