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Police make drugs arrests hours after mephedrone banned

The first arrests in connection with possession of the newly banned drug mephedrone have been made in Scotland, it has been revealed.

Two men were arrested three hours and 39 minutes after the reclassification of the drug as a Class B illegal substance came into force on Friday morning, Grampian Police said.