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Legal and lethal

Ducking into a betting shop in Ayr’s Dalmilling Estate, a drug user sums up his town’s relationship with the ‘legal high’ mephedrone, known locally as moonshine: “Everyone’s taking it round here, mate – everyone.”

It sounds overblown, but he’s right. During three days spent in Ayr, everybody the Sunday Herald spoke to has either tried the drug or knows someone who has.