A currently legal stimulant known as mephedrone has gained recent popularity among club-goers according to Britain’s National Addiction Center. On January 14, The BBC reported that mephedrone was the fourth most popular drug cited by readers of a popular dance magazine. Surprisingly, one in three readers polled had used the new club drug in the last month.
Mephedrone — a stimulant that is currently legal in both the U.K. and the U.S. — has gained recent and surprising popularity among club-goers in the U.K., according to Britain’s National Addiction Center.
“It’s come from nowhere to become very popular,” said one of the researchers. “For a drug that’s been around for a relatively short amount of time, mephedrone has certainly made a big impact on the dance drug scene. [And] at the moment we just don’t have enough research to know what it does to people in the short term and long term. ”
The drug is often sold online through dozens of websites as “plant food” and “not for human consumption,” although its use as a fertilizer is unknown. Though little is known about its effects, experts believe mephedrone to be a different version of classical amphetamines and carry similar problems associated with such use.
The drug is also known as meph, 4-MMC, MCAT, Drone, Meow or Bubbles. It is a powder that can be taken in pill form, snorted, mixed with liquid or even injected.
