Meow meow users from Walton and Weybridge have spoken out about the legal drug which has hospitalised as many as 10 people a week at nearby Kingston Hospital.

Cheaper than cocaine and perfectly legal to buy and use in the UK, mephedrone has been blamed for three deaths in the UK in the last fortnight.

The white powder, made from plant fertiliser, is set to be banned in a matter of weeks after a recommendation from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

One university student, from Weybridge, said: "I've tried mephedrone and I know lots of people who are getting really into it.

"It can be delivered next day and a gram is around £10, roughly a fifth of the price of a gram of cocaine.

"I'm hearing rumours about people overdosing now which, to be honest, I can understand, because its the kind of drug that people tend to go on long, long benders on.

"This girl from Leicester told me that her and her friends stayed up for four days on it."

Another user, from Walton, who regularly uses cocaine, said: "I was at a party and it was being handed around.

"I thought it was coke so I did a line and I was in agony.

"My nose was burning and it was running the whole night.

"I couldn't believe someone had passed it to me without telling me what it was."

Mark Byford, manager of McClusky's nightclub in Kingston, said the club would take a robust line if meow-meow was spotted, even though the drug is legal.

He said: "Our policy is strictly no drugs full stop so if somebody has it on them, it will be confiscated.

"I don't care if it's legal, if they won't let us confiscate it, they won't be coming in - simple as that."

The drug is already banned in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel and the Isle of Man and although it is legal in this country, it is illegal to sell it on to friends on the understanding it is to be taken as a recreational drug.

Chief Constable Tim Hollis, Humberside Police, is the lead on drugs for Association of Chief Police Officers and said the drug is clearly a social problem that needs "tackling robustly".

He said: "Making Mephedrone illegal would undoubtedly send out a clear message to young people and suppress the open sale of the drug and that in itself would be a positive step towards reducing harm."

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