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June 2, 2010

Teenagers 'killed by mephedrone' never actually took the drug

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The Guardian reports that toxicology tests have now shown that the two teenagers whose deaths were "caused by mephedrone", and which led to a tabloid-fuelled moral panic resulting in a knee-jerk ban from the Labour government, never took the now-banned drug.

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen many tabloids correcting their earlier lies misreporting...
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