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>Oh and in the UK - mephedrone, which was banned purely because it became popular. Nobody did themselves much harm with it until after prohibition. That's not
by cpncrunch 11y ago
>Oh and in the UK - mephedrone, which was banned purely because it became popular. Nobody did themselves much harm with it until after prohibition.
That's not true. There have been quite a few fatal mephedrone overdoses in the UK.
- Nursie 11y agoEvidence? As far as I could ever tell there was only one widely reported (before prohibition), and it was misreported by the press. The substance that killed that guy was methadone. --edit-- I see from a quick scan of wikipedia that there were a very few deaths The only one definitely cause by mephedrone and pre-ban I can see was "The first death reported to be caused by mephedrone use was that of 46-year-old, John Sterling Smith, who had underlying health problems and repeatedly injected the drug" It's not exactly a surprise at that point.
- cpncrunch 11y agoNot sure about pre-ban, but there are quite a few deaths listed in the wikipedia article, many of which do seem to be caused by the drug.
- Nursie 11y agoPost-ban in the UK, well, impurities came in and things started to go wrong. Wikipedia lists a number of deaths where mephedrone was present, but AFAICT there were very few where it was causative. I shall tone down my initial statement - mephedrone appears to have been a relatively safe drug, given the huge scale if its use pre-ban and the very small number of deaths.