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Future of Drug Laws in the UK- Get your unfounded speculation here.

Meph's success was due to a total lack of coke or E, that it wasn't regulated whatsoever and the price, which made it not only the drug of choice for a lot of people but also gave people easy access.

I don't for one second believe there was a huge untapped population that, Meph aside, would be 'normal law abiding citizens.' From anecdotal evidence, the people taking Meph were younger people, without access to (lots of) money nor dealers, who'd had exposure to drugs already.
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I was at uni during the meph boom, and there were lots of kids who looked down on my use of cannabis because it was illegal but who were hoovering down that shit.
 
I think meph's popularity stems from a large number of things. The rock bottom price meant anyone could afford to give it to their friends, people could easily buy from friends instead of going to the government licensed store, there was no education or knowledge about negative effects, people just saw their friends were fine afterwards and assumed it was fine.

Even its nature lends to fiending, and as such something like meph would ideally be sold only to those with a meph stamp on their drug licence, demonstrating they had completed the appropriate course and understood the risks.
 
Transform said:
I think meph's popularity stems from a large number of things. The rock bottom price meant anyone could afford to give it to their friends, people could easily buy from friends instead of going to the government licensed store, there was no education or knowledge about negative effects, people just saw their friends were fine afterwards and assumed it was fine.

Even its nature lends to fiending, and as such something like meph would ideally be sold only to those with a meph stamp on their drug licence, demonstrating they had completed the appropriate course and understood the risks.
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Meph was/kinda still is the perfect party-drug. Even fiending becomes a sociable event when everyone has a gram for themselves. It's not often that a preferable, cheap and legal drug comes about. Mephedrone was always going to be huge.
 
Vader said:
This is what I always thought, you had the argument "look, if hard drugs were legal, all the people who don't currently use them wouldn't just start". But mephedrone showed me I was wrong.
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Different situation vadar - the key difference is that meph was a new drug. That means you've got the curiosity factor. It's new. It's a trend. It was the rubiks cube of 2009.

I'm not sure if you made heroin legal tomorrow all the uni kids would be injecting into the vein under their cock.
 
^ no, but im sure if a decent opiate RC came out, people would be all over it while at the same time still looking with disdain upon junkies and heroin use.
 
nAON said:
^ no, but im sure if a decent opiate RC came out, people would be all over it while at the same time still looking with disdain upon junkies and heroin use.
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Only people who are interested in using opiates recreationally. And that's always going to be very small percentage of the population. And out of that tiny percentage is an even smaller percentage who would be vulnerable to addiction.
 
Vader said:
I was at uni during the meph boom, and there were lots of kids who looked down on my use of cannabis because it was illegal but who were hoovering down that shit.
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I believe thats what one might call an excellent example of irony...
 
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