Two months after Britain banned the party drug mephedrone, Sky News has reported that factories in China are making a host of new drugs to skirt UK and Irish laws.
Before mephedrone was scheduled as a Class B drug in April, it was openly sold online by dealers who offered express home delivery.
In internet chat rooms, users praised its effects which they described as similar to the drug ecstasy.
But now the same Chinese companies that used to manufacture mephedrone have come up with a raft of new chemical compounds that are not covered by British law.
Filming secretly and posing as customers, a Sky News crew visited the offices of Chemchallenger Biotech in Shanghai. They were given a free sample of a new "legal high" said to mirror the effects of mephedrone.
"Our British clients really like this one" said the company's director, Jacky Wu. He then offered to sell the crew up to 100kg of the drug, and said it could be sent to the UK by courier.
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Source: Sligo Today, 09/06/2010
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