11-year-olds 'selling mephedrone to younger pupils'

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11-year-olds 'selling mephedrone to younger pupils'
Schoolchildren as young as 11 are selling the potentially lethal drug mephedrone to fellow pupils, according to the mother of a young woman who died after taking another 'legal high'.
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By Stephen Adams
Published: 4:53PM GMT 30 Nov 2009
Maryon Stewart, whose 21-year-old daughter Hester died after taking GBL in April, said websites were making "as much as £100,000 per week" from selling mephedrone, a white powder more commonly known as "miaow miaow" or MCAT.
Last week mephedrone was linked to the death of 14-year-old schoolgirl Gabrielle Price, who allegedly took it with ketamine at a friend's house in Brighton. She suffered a heart attack and later died.
Mrs Stewart has written to Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, urging him to ban it immediately. She said he could do so within 90 minutes using a Parliamentary statutory instrument.
She went on: "The mission statement of the Home Office is to 'Protect the People' but right now young people in the UK are extremely vulnerable, being exposed to the real possibility of needless death and loss of dear family and friends.
"This is an outrage which must be urgently addressed."
Mephedrone is a stimulant that can produce similar effects in users as MDMA and Ecstasy, which are both illegal. Websites are offering it from just £5 a gram
The Royal College of Psychiatrists said it has started to see patients suffering from psychosis resulting from taking mephedrone.
Although it is usually illegal to sell, supply or advertise 'legal high' drugs under medicines legislation, website suppliers often get around the law by describing them as "plant food" or "research chemicals".
Last month legislation was passed to finally make GBL and synthetic cannabinoid’s – known as 'spice' – illegal.
The ban will come into force before Christmas – 18 months after the Government's chief drugs adviser called for a ban.
But anti-drug campaigners claim it does not go far enough because it does not ban other party drugs, including mephedrone, which are already banned in other countries including Sweden and Israel.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The ACMD are looking into it as a priority as part of their review into legal highs. They will report back next year and their advice will inform our response to these substances."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...lds-selling-mephedrone-to-younger-pupils.html
 
Cornishman said:
If only cocaine was legal.
Then we wouldn't have schoolkids taking shite like mephedrone.
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Uh. Except even in its pure form, cocaine is a half assed drug that doesn't have nearly as many positive effects as mephedrone. It may be healthier to abuse, but cocaine is no replacement. They're both shit drugs.
 
Did the people who died, die from a overdose or did they die from the recommended dose? If the case is OD then it is their fault and they should just move the age limit to 18.
 
wtf the story has nothing about 11 year olds selling it other than one line? then it just goes to the previous incident where the 14 year old girl died, and then onto the dangerous side effects...

what kind of bs article is this.. media propoganda
 
'as young as 11'

'according to a mother..'

Hard fact? Hello? Are you there?
 
This kinda thing isn't new, sadly. I've heard it all before.
 
Where in this article is there anything that says 11 year olds are selling this substance, Besides some mother who's daughter overdosed off an entirely different substance years ago? The 14 year old girl who overdosed took a combination of ketamine and mephedrone. From the reports Ive read mephedrone does sound like it could be really horrible for the heart but 11 year olds pushing this shit sounds like pure propaganda just like the person who ripped off there scrotum while taking this.
 
This is what happens when an industry isn't regulated properly. Ofcourse when just anybody can order this stuff cheaply some young kids are going to have the bright idea of selling it.
 
At the end of the day, if somebody wants to take drugs, they'll take them whether it's legal or not, especially kids that age - they can't get into much trouble from it.

I wish that the media would at least register a few of the good things about being able to order pure chemicals online - you know what you're getting, you know how to dose and you're not wasting much money for a good time.

Surely parents would rather their kids were doing something that was exactly as it claimed, rather than doing something they got from a dealer which has been cut with new, unknown & potentially dangerous stuff every time it's passed on.

And why is the cheapness of Mephedrone such a big deal? I thought one of the major drug complaints have always been how they're so expensive that people turn to lives of crime & in-honesty.

Lastly, I wish parents would come to terms that their children aren't as innocent as they like to believe - it's completely normal for teenagers to experiment, yet, in cases like the Mephedrone death, the parents always have to say how "Innocent, happy, well-adjusted, responsible, and how they would never have done drugs if some older guy wasn't pressuring them into it, and how they think legal = 100% safe". I don't believe it for even a second.

Am I wrong in saying that a large amount of drug problems & injuries are caused by people simply being clueless about drugs, because they've never actually been told anything practical about them, just how they give you seizures and burn holes in your brain.

Analogy: Have somebody grow up hearing nothing about alcohol but the occasional "It'll make you violent and get into fights" sort of propaganda - then, when they reach the age of 15, when they're at a party, in a very impulsive mood, shove a big bottle of everclear & a big bottle of whiskey into their hands - sounds like a dangerous situation to me, yet it's exactly what many people are like with drugs.
 
drug_mentor said:
This is what happens when an industry isn't regulated properly. Ofcourse when just anybody can order this stuff cheaply some young kids are going to have the bright idea of selling it.
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There is literally no way to regulate what they're talking about. You can't have law enforcement officers follow around every 11 year old during school in case they are youngster meph dealers.

Don't tell me you don't think these same 11 year olds would be selling coke or ketamine if whoever got them the meph had that instead?
 
^ My point is its unregulated, they could have age restrictions on it and kids wouldn't get it, I don't expect them to follow around every 11 year old kid.

All I am saying is the legal high industry isn't really regulated so kids get a hold of some more easily if they are in the know and because of a lack of regulation may consider it less harmless.

If it isn't the legal issue and/or ease of access influencing young kids to sell it, I don't see anything else that would motivate a kid to sell mephedrone but not any other drug. Obviously they know they are doing the wrong thing and are in it for the money and/or the image.
 
There are age restrictions on alcohol and that doesn't stop 11 year olds from getting drunk.
 
^ Yes, age restrictions aren't 100% effective, but they probably do make it more difficult (even slightly) for kids to obtain alcohol. And anyone supplying alcohol to a minor faces legal trouble... a store could receive a hefty fine and lose their liquor license.
 
My theory, based on personal experience, is that 11 year olds have no problems getting access to drugs and alcohol because they have no problems stealing it. It's not like 11 year olds usually have money of their own...

What liability does a victim of theft have?
 
^ If someone has alcohol stolen by a minor, they obviously don't have any liability at all (they were the victim of a crime - they didn't offer it to the kid). There will never be a way to totally prevent kids from accessing drugs or alcohol, but I think legal restrictions would be far more effective than outright prohibition. At least there would be some regulations.
 
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