Legal highs in Ireland

As the media furor grows by the hour, Hot Press asks in our current issue: “Is the head shop hysteria justified?”
In a special four-page report, Stuart Clark interviews one of the big guns of the Irish legal highs industry; examines the new breed of legal drugs such as mephedrone and DMAA; talks to some of the people using these substances; and asks whether it’s National Drugs Strategy Minister John Curran or Joe Duffy who’s setting the drugs agenda in this country.