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25/05/2010 by admin.
Twenty four new psychoactive drugs were reported to the official European monitoring centre during 2009, the largest number ever reported in a single year.
All the new drugs were synthetic compounds, and included 9 cannabinoid (cannabis) like substances.
The growth in synthesised drugs, side-stepping current legal restrictions to enable fast market and internet sales of “legal highs” seems to have been the growth trend of 2009 with a reduction in MDMA in tablets sold as E’s and substitution with Piperazine mCPP like substances.
As the UK moves to legislate to cover these developments, the market will move to traditional criminal production and supply chains associated with established drug groups.
There is still no test available for any of these new drugs, making screening and detection difficult.
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14/05/2010 by admin.
Under increasing pressure from the media, the UK government has introduced an amnesty for all mephedrone suppliers of existing stock and made the drug a class B substance.
The legislation attempts to cover all possible chemical variations and compound structures, which could have allowed a legal way round the ban. Mephedrone is now an illegal substance to possess, supply or import in the UK. Standard class B legal penalties apply upon charges brought by the police.
How Mephedrone will be treated and classified by Europe and the rest of the world remains unclear. It remains a legal chemical in many countries.
There is still no instant drug test for mephedrone available, making its use, problematic to detect or monitor.
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30/03/2010 by admin.
Yesterday the home secretary Alan Johnson announced to the UK press that the legal high drug Mephedrone that has now be linked to 25 deaths in the UK, would be banned within weeks.
The ban which is expected to have widespread cross party support is to be rushed through the houses of commons & lords
Click here to read more at Guardian online
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17/03/2010 by admin.
After the sad news in the UK press this weekend that the death of two teenagers in Scunthorpe may be linked to Mephedrone use, the government is coming under increasing pressure to ban the drug, currently sold legally as a plant fertiliser.
Click on links below to read coverage in UK press
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1258384/Schools-mephedrone-Meow-Meow-ban-teenage-deaths.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/mar/17/mephedrone-deaths-drugs-legal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/mar/17/calls-ban-mephedrone-teenage-deaths
In fact this is not the first time that Mephedrone has been linked to deaths in UK
http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Mephedrone-death-two-held.6084152.jp
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/campaigns/mephedrone/5009551.Mephedrone_link_to_party_man___s_death/
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