Government moves to ban sweets with HHC, fails to set date for euro adoption

The Czech government has moved to place sweets containing the psychoactive substance HHC on the list of banned addictive substances. According to Agriculture Minister Marek Výborný the measure is temporary and will have to be approved by the European Commission which may take between two to three weeks. It should be enforced in March.  Since last summer, around 170 children and young people have ended up in hospital after overdosing on these products. The European Union is expected to address the problem on a European scale.

At its session on Wednesday the cabinet also discussed Czechia’s progress in meeting the Maastricht  criteria, but it did not set a target date for euro adoption.