Already a new ‘legal drug’ is on its way to the UK as a replacement for recently banned mephedrone and will present legislators with another headache. Sold online under the name of NRG-1, it is said to have far worse effects than the illegal drugs cocaine and ecstasy. No doubt this will set the debate going again as to how new legal synthetic drugs should be dealt with, despite the ban of previous substances. The ‘designer’ drugs market is now said to be worth millions of pounds a year.
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