Deadly GBL set for ban; LEGISLATION.A LEGAL dance drug which killed a student will be banned by the end of the year, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said yesterday. Hester Stewart, 21, died in May after taking GBL GBL Gamma-Butyrolactone GBL government bill of lading (US DoD) GBL Ground-Based Laser GBL Game Boy Light GBL General Bearing Line GBL Generation Breakdown List GBL Ground-Based Laboratory GBL Green Bus Lines, Inc. , a substitute for the banned liquid ecstasy drug GHB GHB abbr. gamma-hydroxybutyrate GHB 1 Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, γ-hydroxy-butyrate See GABA 2 Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there GHb Glycosylated hemoglobin, see there . GBL - gamma-butyrolactone - will be classified as a Class C drug. Mr Johnson said: "Legal highs are an emerging threat, particularly for the young." Hester's mother Maryon, from Brighton, said: "She would never have taken this drug if she'd known it could have killed her." |
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