Drugs and Drug Paraphenalia


Policy overview

Narcotics, steroids, and all other controlled substances aren’t allowed on Buy N Sell LOCAL.

Drug paraphernalia can’t be listed either. This includes all items designed or primarily intended for use in manufacturing, concealing, or using a controlled substance.

We also have some rules about how sellers may describe legal substances such as plants and herbs. Sellers may not describe these in a way that suggests using legal substances (such as by ingesting, inhaling or extracting compounds from them) will provide similar effects to illegal drugs. Sellers also can’t claim any health benefits from legal substances for which the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) hasn’t approved them.

Make sure your listing follows our guidelines. If it doesn’t, it may be removed, and your buying and selling privileges could be restricted.

What are the guidelines?

Drugs and controlled substances

Restricted

  • Poppy seeds can be listed as long as the listing doesn’t mention any illegal usages.

  • Live plants can be listed, unless the item is a controlled substance or the listing includes information about illegal use. Sellers can’t state that the item shouldn’t be used illegally.

Not allowed

Prohibited substances include, but are not limited to:

  • Narcotics, steroids, and other controlled substances as classified by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (UK)

  • 2C-I

  • Colloidal silver, Seasilver, and machines that make these substances

  • Cutting agents in powder form including but not limited to Phenacetin, Lidocaine, Benzocaine, Mannitol and Diltiazem

  • Describing substances in a way that suggests a product will have drug-like effects (for example, a ‘legal high’)

  • Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)

  • Hallucinogenic or wild mushrooms

  • Hoodia plants

  • Human Growth Hormone (HGH)

  • Khat plants

  • Listings for energy drinks with comparisons to narcotics or illicit drugs

  • Marijuana, including cannabis seeds

  • Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy)

  • N-benzylpiperazine (BZP)

  • Peyote plants

  • Poppers (animals nitrates)

  • Salvia Divinorum

  • Steroids or listings that state the item has the same results as steroids

Drug paraphernalia examples

Allowed

  • Tobacco pipes made from briar, clay, corncob, catlinite (pipestone), or meerschaum

  • Milk glass pipes

  • Regular cigarette papers

  • Kitchen herb grinders

Restricted

  • These items can be listed as long as the listing doesn’t indicate that the item is drug-related or can be used with an illicit drug:

    • Hookahs

    • Incense

Not allowed

Prohibited items include, but are not limited to:

  • Pipes made from metal, wood (except briar), acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic, ivory or bone

  • Water pipes, chamber pipes, carburettor pipes, electric pipes, ice pipes, bongs, chillums

  • Dugout pipes and one-hitters

  • Pipes described as being used to smoke peyote or opium, regardless of age

  • Wired cigarette papers

  • Complete disposable syringes and needles

  • Nitrous Oxide crackers, N2O crackers

Describing drugs and drug-like substances
You can list herbal products as long as you follow these guidelines for how you’re allowed to describe them.

Allowed

  • Calling a herbal product by its common name without its scientific name (such as milk thistle for silybum marianum)

Not allowed

  • Implying or suggesting that a herbal product is a substitute for marijuana

  • Claiming or suggesting that muscle-building supplements have the same effect as steroids

  • Claiming that a herbal product or medication will produce the same results or have the same effect as a prescription or controlled drug

  • Claiming that stamina products work like Viagra or other erectile dysfunction medications

  • Making a claim that an item can cure an ailment or a disease when the MHRA hasn’t approved such claims

  • Including language that suggests a product will provide a ‘legal high’

Why does Buy N Sell LOCAL have this policy?

We urge our buyers and sellers buyers to comply with all government regulations. The sale of drugs and drug paraphernalia is prohibited by law or regulated, as are some promotional claims related to drugs and drug-like substances. For these reasons, and because sales of these items may cause harm to Buy n Sell LOCAL or its users, we don’t allow sellers to list them.