Call for US style 'legal highs' ban
Wednesday 17 March 2010
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EmailDrugs campaigner Maryon Stewart has called for new US-style laws banning so-called "legal highs" for a year while scientists assess the dangers to children and young people.
Ms Stewart, whose 21-year-old daughter Hester died after taking the dance drug GBL which was subsequently made illegal last year by Home Secretary Alan Johnson, said the ban could save lives by giving scientists the chance to assess the dangers.
The call followed the deaths of teenagers Louis Wainwright and Nicholas Smith in Scunthorpe on Monday after taking the legal drug mephedrone.
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