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A joined-up approach to drugs is needed now

It is classified as a legal high and sold on the internet as plant food.

Little is known about the precise pharmacology or potential toxic side-effects of mephedrone, whose chemistry may be straightforward to graduate scientists, but which to some 17-year-olds simply promises increased alertness, excitement and euphoria.