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Doctors call for ban on ‘legal high’ after woman dies

Doctors are calling for a ban on the latest “legal high” craze to sweep Scotland – the plant food mephedrone.

Police are warning the public about the risk of the drug -- whose street names include “meow-meow”, “bubbles” and “drone” -- after a 49-year-old woman from Dunfermline died last week after taking it.