The law will enable the Home Office to ban so-called "legal highs" while a panel of experts consider the health implications of taking the drug.
It follows the enormous publicity surrounding the emergence and prevalence of the legal high mephedrone in the past six months, which was linked to the deaths of several teenagers.
Mephedrone was banned on 16 April, following recommendations by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
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