Mephedrone

So, predictably the government have decided to ban mephedrone 'within weeks' after a string of negative tabloid stories. The drug has gained notoriety and popularity in equal measure among social drug users over the last couple of years, mainly due to disillusionment with the increasingly poor content of Coke and Es. The drug seemed to offer users a similar high at a knock down price (despite prices rocketing in the last few months). Eric Carlin: a government drug advisor, resigned shortly after Alan Johnson's announcement, claiming there had been no meaningful consultation on the effects of mephedrone. It seems that the government think England's gutter press have a better grasp on the effects of the drug than the very organisation they employ to advise them. This is the institution that reports mephedrone as 'plant food' when in fact, 'plant food' is merely a front to sell the drug legitimately. I have no idea if mephadrone can cause serious health problems and neither do the gutter press. The one organisation which should have, seems to have been wholly disregarded by a government eager to pander to its antagonists in the lead up to a general election.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8608183.stm

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