Pressure to outlaw mephedrone grows as heads call for ban on miaow miaow

By Heidi Blake, Nick Britten and Tom Whitehead 918AM GMT seventeen Mar 2010

Nicholas Smith, nineteen and Louis Wainwright, eighteen died after a night out. Police are joining their deaths to the authorised drug mephedrone Photo PA

The authorised piece conspicuous to be taken by immature kids as immature as 9 contributed to the deaths of dual teenage friends this week, according to police.

Louis Wainwright and Nicholas Smith, both 19, took mephedrone a authorised opiate sole as plant food - prior to collapsing. The piece can be paid for on the internet for �4 and is well known on the travel as "miaow miaow".

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There have been dual prior deaths in Britain related to the drug that is bootleg in alternative European countries together with Norway, Germany and Finland.

Campaigners conspicuous last night that mephedrone should have been criminialized after warnings about the dangers emerged in Scotland last summer.

The Tories conspicuous there was a "strong case" for outlawing the drug.

Headteachers this sunrise assimilated calls for the Government to cruise outlawing the substance.

Mick Brooks, ubiquitous cabinet member of the National Association of Head Teachers, told the BBC "This drug obviously has the same fundamental dangers as any Class A drug and I think critical care should be given to banning it.

"The complaint with that is that you afterwards criminalise the people who take it, so we need to think really delicately about what we do, but action with a little speed."

Dr David Wood, expert clinical toxicologist at Guys and St Thomas"s hospital, conspicuous the dangers of the drug were clear.

"We know that the a opiate drug identical to cocaine, amphetamine or MDMA," he told Radio 4s Today Programme.

"Were already saying patients entrance in with poignant strident goods identical to agitation, anxiety, fast heart rates and high red blood pressure. There have been reports of patients carrying seizures and fits identical to epileptic fits."

Dr Wood conspicuous the drug is additionally identical to the active member of Khat, the hallicinogenic plant root chewed by members of a little Somalian communities.

Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling conspicuous "We think there is a really clever box for banning mephedrone and alternative supposed "legal highs".

"There is ascent justification to indicate these drug are you do genuine repairs to people"s health.

"An incoming Conservative supervision would mountain an obligatory hearing of these substances with a perspective to adding them to the list of criminialized substances."

Police are doubt 3 people over the deaths of the dual teenagers who died after receiving the drug this week.

On Monday, military were called to Mr Wainwrights home in the encampment of Winteringham, where he was conspicuous dead.

They were after called to a remote farmhouse in Winterton, the home of Mr Smith, a earnest cook who worked at the Winteringham Fields restaurant. Mr Smiths father Tony, a late fireman, conspicuous his son was not a "druggie".

Detectives fright the teenagers were killed by a infested collection of mephedrone. They have warned any one with the organisation or at the same venues who had taken the drug not long ago to go to a hospital.

Their purported retailer is underneath detain in sanatorium and a lady was certified for examination. Two men have been arrested on guess of provision tranquil drugs.

In November, Gabrielle Price, 14, of Worthing, West Sussex, died after allegedly receiving the drug. In January, a 49-year-old lady from Dunfermline died after being suspected of receiving the substance.

Last week it emerged that given Dec 180 pupils had skipped classes after receiving mephedrone at a delegate propagandize in north-west Leicestershire some-more than dual a day.

The Governments drug advisory cabinet is due to plead banning mephedrone on Mar 29.

The mom of Hester Stewart, a 21-year-old who died after receiving the formerly authorised drug GBL, has additionally demanded a ban.

Maryon Stewart, who campaigns opposite "legal highs" after successfully job for a anathema on GBL following her daughters genocide , conspicuous "Yet again we are in a incident where there is no competent legislation and kids are suffering.

"We have got to the point where immature people think they are protected since of the word legal."