After the death of two teenagers, Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, head teachers are calling for the ban of the drug mephedrone.
Head teachers, as well as the police, are unable to exercise any serious power over the possession of mephedrone because it is a legal drug and schools who had caught children as young as nine with the drug had to return confiscated drugs at the end of the school day.
But I say make this legal high a class A drug and a new drug will come to light that teens just won’t be able to resist trying.
Why do teens love testing out drugs? There seems to exist a stage before proper adulthood, a stage of trying everything, experimenting, and wanting to feel good/ cool. Is it that teens don’t think about the consequences or do they simply enjoy taking risks?
If all drugs were legal would there be such a desire to take them? People are able to get drugs by one means or another so why not just legalise them and educate people about them properly. That way we can also guarantee that the drugs that are being sold are pure – not 90% dog worming tablets.
As a legal drug, mephedrone is cheap and easy to buy on the internet, eliminating any dodgy dealings on street corners. In fact, a Google search revealed more than 52,000 hits for the drug in the UK. Of course, it is banned for human consumption and is therefore advertised as plant food.
Would banning mephedrone really make a difference? Let’s face it, it isn’t going to stop people taking it. The only thing it might do is push the price out of the reach of nine year olds.
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