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Hyndburn mum's call for ban on ‘legal high’ Black Mamba backed by MP Graham Jones
Lancashire Telegraph
1:44pm Thursday 8th December 2011
With reader comments
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Lancashire Telegraph
1:44pm Thursday 8th December 2011
With reader comments
A MUM whose teenage son became seriously ill after taking the new legal high ‘Black Mamba’ has called for it to be made illegal.
Hyndburn MP Graham Jones said he backed the move and called for an end to the ‘lunacy’ of ‘concocted chemicals’ being freely available.
“His limbs became very rigid and he could not walk or move unaided. He stopped talking and was in a barely conscious state. His body temperature reduced dramatically and his skin colour became grey and green. All these events occurred within 30 minutes.
Dr Tom Smith, the Lancashire Telegraph’s medical expert, said he couldn’t understand why people would take the drug given the risks involved.
He said: “The two main problems are that a very small proportion of people taking this drug can become psychotic and get a schizophrenic-like reaction that can be very difficult to treat and sometimes people don’t recover at all. “The second thing is the cannabinoids stay in the brain quite a long time, so even years after they are still there which can lead to a high chance of dementia.
“If that’s not scary I don’t know what is.”
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