Dr. Craig Slattery

Do you have a view on whether it should be banned?

So technically, it's not.

If some of the claims or the claims around the...

the psychoactive effects.

And again, I did a little bit of looking myself and there are claims there that some of the practitioners are making around the psychoactive benefits.

So technically, that's automatically illegal because we have a Psychoactive Substances Act since 2010 in Ireland where anything which is not approved as a medicinal therapy, it's not legal to offer that for sale in Ireland.

So technically, it's already illegal.

But

It is always, as you know yourself, any activity, illegality is down to legislation one and enforcement two.

if there isn't active surveillance and enforcement going after these activities, the best defense is people understanding themselves and exercising their own judgment.

Right, Craig, thank you very much for joining us and explaining that to us.

That's Dr. Craig Slattery on this deadly frog poison called Cambo, which sounds deeply unpleasant.