If they are doing nothing they are going to be up to something – just send them to prison.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

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Biogen’s drug, aducanumab, slowed the decline in cognition in an early-stage trial.