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Jamie Doward
The Observer, Sunday 11 March 2012
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/11/mephedrone-more-popular-after-ban?newsfeed=true
Jamie Doward
The Observer, Sunday 11 March 2012
With reader comments
Four in 10 club-goers questioned say mephedrone is their drug of choice
Moves to criminalise the new wave of synthetic drugs, known as legal highs, appear to have backfired after it emerged that mephedrone is now more popular among clubbers than when it was not banned.
Confirmation comes in a survey of London club-goers carried out by researchers at Lancaster University and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation trust. Published on Monday in the Journal of Substance Use, it assesses the impact of the classification of mephedrone as a class B drug.
The survey builds on earlier work, conducted one evening in July 2010, three months after the drug was made illegal, which found the popularity of mephedrone had surpassed that of all other drugs, with 27% of people questioned in two gay-friendly south London dance clubs reporting that they had or were going to take it that night.
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