I’m sure many of you have heard of the drug mephedrone. It was a ‘legal high’ that boomed around the autumn of 2009. Well, since banning it in April 2010, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has had its work cut out, with an average of one new drug a fortnight being released into the market. This perpetual pattern of a new drug emerging and then it being shortly banned was recently highlighted with the case of ‘Ivory Wave’: desoxypipradrol (2-DPMP) is now subject to the same controls as a Class B drug.

http://oxfordstudent.com/2011/10/20/dumb-science-recreational-drugs/