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By Charles Poladian | June 21, 2012
With reader comments
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http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120621/10398/mephedrone-drugs-bath-salts-clubs.htm
Also an article in the Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120621102005.htm
By Charles Poladian | June 21, 2012
With reader comments
Club goers are happy to stick with mephedrone as their drug of choice. In London clubs, many clubbers are not using legal highs and instead opt for mephedrone which was banned in 2010.
The club scene can be filled with many different types of drugs but like anything, there is a specific culture surrounding drug use and choice. In the study of London clubs, mephedrone was the drug of choice for getting high with cocaine use also being extremely prevalent. Just because there were "legal highs" available did not mean more people were using them.
Mephedrone may not seem to have the hit the mainstream radar but it has been making the news in quite severe ways during the last few months. While banned, mephedrone is sold as "bath salts" and "plant food" in the United States and in the United Kingdom to skirt the law. You can insert your own raver zombie joke here.
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http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120621/10398/mephedrone-drugs-bath-salts-clubs.htm
Also an article in the Science Daily
More...Lancaster University's Dr Fiona Measham, one of the authors of the report, said:
"Although there is some experimentation with 'legal highs', only mephedrone has become an established part of the recreational drug scene. For the majority of 'legal highs' that have come onto the market since mephedrone was banned, use is low or non-existent. This suggests that what we are seeing is a pattern of differentiated demand for drugs -- just because drugs are for sale doesn't necessarily mean that people are buying them."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120621102005.htm

