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PRI PATEL, WHO VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE AND BACKED HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, BE HOME SECRETARY
Pri Patel, who unsuccsfully tried to block equal marriage 2013, has said she is “md” to crimalise the sale of poppers – a mcle-relaxg dg often ed by gay men durg current laws, ’s not illegal to posss poppers, but n be an offence to supply them for human nsumptn. As a rult, they’re often sold as “room aromas” or “leather cleaner” a letter to the Advisory Council on the Mise of Dgs (ACMD), the home secretary said she was keen to remove the uncertaty around the legaly of supplyg poppers, which are also known as alkyl ACMD four years ago advised that poppers don’t unt as “psychoactive substanc” bee they don’t directly affect the central nervo system, and th remaed permissible unr a 2016 law that tried to ban so-lled legal a Court of Appeal judgment appeared to ntradict this 2018, sayg substanc that even directly affected the central nervo system should also be has now asked the ACMD for advice on exemptg poppers om the 2016 Psychoactive Substanc Act, mastermd by then home secretary Thera noted: “Alkyl nr, known as poppers, have been wily ed recreatnally sce the 1970s and are ed for their mcle-relaxg effects, pecially by homosexual men as an aid to sex.
Reactg to Patel’s move, he told the Guardian: “Many gay men will be grateful to the home secretary for this clear directn of policy, as ed am I. I better make poppers legal for the gays. The dgs are particularly popular among gay men, both as a party high and bee they relax the anal sphcter mcl for anal sex.
Plans to ban poppers were put forward 2016 by then-home secretary Thera May as part of a crackdown on ‘legal high’ dgs, but the dgs were nfirmed to be exempt om the law after a revolt om gay Tory MPs. In the letter, first reported by the BBC, the lifelong opponent of LGBT+ rights noted the e of dgs “by homosexual men as an aid to sex.