Schoolgirl, 14, dies 'after taking dangerous new drug' at house party (mephedrone)

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This statement bears no relevance to the rest of the article. Mephedrone is completely legal.

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Cue the deluge of "she could have saved the world, if it not for these evil drugs that 'the kids'(tm) can get of the, equally evil, internet." follow up reports.

Never mind asking what kind of environment this girl was raised in that encouraged her to be taking drugs at 14.

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From the side panel of that DAILY MAIL article:

Don’t some vendors just call it ‘Meow’ ?

What heck is ‘MCATA’ ?

‘feelings of empathy’, SWIMs uncle Bob has never mentioned any kind of empathy.

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The propaganda machine is fully loaded and firing non-stop and as usual this news report is pure speculation full of “might have taken” and “'we have suspicions” hearsay statements reported as a drug-induced death long before there is any scientific confirmation on the cause of death. This death is tragic, as so many others wholly or partially caused by the total lack of real drug information in schools; countries make schooling obligatory and then teach nothing but pseudoscience and pure bullshit about especially important things like drugs ignoring the fact that drugs are part of the “real world”, (that one so far away from DARE) and they are everywhere.

MCAT is originally and usually used for Methcathinone and not Mephedrone (4-MMC).

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I was about to post something similar. It seems there's a new word for it in every meph article I read.

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Those who are to scared to try or dont understand simply follow the crowd and slate what they dont know about, Just incase they might offend someone.

For example the only reason the mijority of people are against cannabis is because they have never tried it or have been 'told' to hate it.

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Although it is a shame that she passed away, I feel this shall now be followed by a lot of media negitivity towards 'legal highs' although more people have died taken headache pills?

Re: Schoolgirl, 14, dies 'after taking dangerous new drug' at house party (mephedrone

Girl, 14, killed by legal web drug meow meow

A GIRL of 14 died after taking a dangerous but legal new drug at a party, it emerged yesterday.

Gabrielle Price was said to have taken a combination of ketamine and a new drug, known on the street as meow meow, before she became ill.

Other partygoers dialled 999 and ambulance staff battled to save her but she died later that evening in hospital from heart attack.

Last night, there were calls for ministers to take action over the drug, which is available for just £15 a gramme online but is banned in some European countries.

Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said: 'It's absolutely horrifying and a tragic loss of such a young life. It's frightening that this drug is available on the internet without anyone having any idea of the dangerous consequences.'

The teenager, known as Gabi, was at a party on the Moulsecoomb estate in Brighton when she was taken ill. She had taken meow meow, also known as mephedrone and described as a cross between ecstasy and cocaine, as well as the clubbers' drug ketamine.

Meow meow, sold as 'plant food' online, can create feelings of euphoria but can also cause paranoia and nosebleeds. Last year, it was linked to the death of an 18-year-old in Sweden, where it is now banned.

Post-mortem tests on Gabi (pictured) have so far proved inconclusive. A 39-year-old woman and a boy of 17 have been arrested on suspicion of supplying illegal drugs and released on police bail.

Della West, headteacher at Gabi's school in Worthing, West Sussex, said: 'She was quirky with her own individual sense of style. She was politically aware and held strong opinions she was able to defend articulately.'

By ROSS MCGUINNESS
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Metro

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If anyone knows who is selling it for £4/g please post it in the sources forum

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Hundreds of thousands will die from tobacco and alcohol in the next year but they won't ban those drugs. They are gonna ban meph pretty soon especially with minors dying. If the fatality had been some 30 yr old guy it might not be a serious. But a child. That is worse. I am not claiming that a 30 yr old is more or less valuable as a human being. But children using narcotics and dying is more serious and newsworthy to the proponents of the drug war.

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They obviously don't seem to know how much this shit costs eh? From £4-£15 bit of a difference eh? From what SWIM's heard of mephedrone, it is probably not the best drug to mix with all sorts of other things at least until more is known about it and if mixing its probably best to err on side of caution and take modest doses..It's no suprise to SWIM if it is how its portrayed-that this girl was Caning it with all sorts including horsey and most likely alcohol that she got in a bad way. This does not mean however that the blame should get heaped onto mephedrone. As is reported time and time again, patterns of use are one of the biggest problems with mephedrone and indeed most other drugs. We all know we are increasing the risks if poly-drug using so seems to SWIM this is again displaying need for more eduction and harm reduction and not just going for a ban.

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swim was wondering where the hell he was buying his mephedrone from if its available at that price! not :laugh:

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There is a lot of misinformation here for one sentence!

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Just as with the wild and dangerous claim written in another article about legal high's, that users were known to put it on their eyeball as a method of administration (idiot journalist reads about "eyeballing" a dose and doesn't realise it refers to estimating the dose size of a powder), the constant media references to plant fertiliser will no doubt suggest to some moron that raiding grandpa's greenhouse will yield a recreational drug.

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What about the industrial chemical ethanol and the insecticide nicotine? I'm not even sure how mephedrone could be considered to be a plant fertiliser. Perhaps I'm misinformed about its properties. Spin is easy to come up with, and it's especially insulting when journalists spew this shite and they get it wrong.

What was a fourteen-year-old doing taking mephedrone and ketamine anyway? With correct, objective education about drugs, she would still be alive. Instead, she was likely ignorant of safe dosages and how to treat side-effects.

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I was thinking the very same thing, it’s just a matter of time.

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Funny thing about that "plant fertilizer" bussiness, SWIM a few weeks ago had a really bad experience with JWH-018 and decided to inform his older sister (no hospital), she looked at the bag and saw "Bonsai Tree Fertilizer" and started calling SWIM a fucking idiot cause she truly thought it was fertilizer and not a drug.

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This is truly tragic.

But lets look at what information we have shall we? An anonymous neighbour (which could have been somebody at the party, or could have been an interfering busybody next door) claims she took mephedrone and ketamine. I would assume the anonymous neighbour to be at least a little bit aware of current drug culture to even know that mephedrone exists, but we really don't have much to go on there. also worth noting that since we're talking about a party with likely a variety of drugs being used, its pretty likely that at least alcohol was also involved.

Of course, by the time more info is available the whole thing will be forgotten, so we'll probably never know.

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Wow, im actually really pissed off at this...
Why is it that when one person dies of yet UNKNOWN causes the media goes batshit insane and starts churning out misinformed bullshit like this. This news report is nothing but sensationalism and scare tactics leading up to the looming ban of 4-MMC. It's not the suppliers of the drug's fault it's the girl's fault for mixing ket and meph and the educational system's fault for only teaching that illegal drugs are bad and that if something's legal, it must be safe. More people die every year from alcohol than legal highs and it's misinformation and idocy leading to most of the deaths on both parts...

Why must the minority always run things for the majority...