The ban wont work as these substances are made in China and the like and are imported as things like "weed killer" and "pesticide" this gets around any ban.

A huge amount of legal shops setup here selling these products and the Guards could do nothing about it so the government banned the stuff. About 4 or 5 hours later an entirely new range of products was for sale in these shops not covered by the ban. In order to eventually ban them fully the Guards were given powers to confiscate substances they felt were banned and check them out while the shop would be shut for the duration, basically the Guards were given power to shut a shop even if they were not selling illegal substances in an effort to drive them out of business.

That is too far a power for the civil authorities to have even if it is for your health the ability to apply it to something else would worry me. Biggest laugh of the lot the drug dealers now offer the stuff cos people got a taste for it and because it is not an actual drug your not as in trouble when caught.