Memo: European Commission achieves EU-wide ban on ecstasy-like drug mephedrone

The EU’s 27 Justice Ministers agreed on 3 December 2010 to ban a dangerous ecstasy-like drug that is still legal in 12 EU countries. The European Commission proposed on 20 October that governments act to stop the free spread of the drug "mephedrone" across Europe by submitting it to control measures. Mephedrone is already illegal in 15 EU countries. It has been linked to at least 37 deaths in the UK and Ireland alone.

ESO: Background Information: EU bans 'meow meow' drug http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-bans-meow-meow-drug/

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