A Dangerous Legal High?

It would be easy to dismiss Ben Walters as just another casualty of illicit drug use. The 18-year-old student died at a house party in the small English town of Berkhamsted earlier this month after taking a stimulant known as Mephedrone.

But Walters hadn't consumed a banned substance. The white powder he reportedly took – which produces a euphoric high similar to Ecstasy – is legal in Britain and sold openly on hundreds of Internet head shops.

"Over the past year, the quality of MDMA that I was getting got worse and eventually dried up completely," says clubber Andrew. "I see Mephedrone as a way to get MDMA-like effects without having to go through the hassle of trying to get good MDMA."

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So many new drugs out there now but most are chemically similar to many of the old drugs. What from I understand this mephedrone is similar to "Cat" that people used to steal from Vets. It wasn't ever on my list of drugs to try but I saw some people using it. MDMA just won't go away. In manageable doses there is nothing wrong with it. People will always try to bend the laws to put it in the underground market and ideally one day make it legal.

A Dangerous Legal High?