True to form in a knee jerk reaction the government has banned the "legal high" Mephedrone. Once the tabloids sensed a story the government inevitably caved in to media pressure. The lurried headlines claiming more and more deaths linked to the drug seem reminiscent to the old rave days reactionary headlines towards Ecstasy. Many of those later turn out to be false and in the case of Leah Betts the misinformation actually lead to deaths.
I wonder how many of the Mephedrone deaths will turn out to have been caused by other factors......will this make people safer? I doubt it, it will just mean people will end up buying less pure versions illegally or move to the next legal plant food.
