Sales of legal drugs that mimic cocaine skyrocket

“ALTERNATIVE lifestyle” shops around the country have been selling out of new legal drugs which recreational users are substituting for cocaine.

Mon, 11 Jan, 2010 - 00:00
Jennifer Hough

They are labelled as plant food or novelty bath salts “not for human consumption”.

Their user-friendly names are Charge, White Ice or Snowblow and they cost about €30 a gram.

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