After mere hours that the ban on party drug mephedrone came into force, the police have been warned about a new drug doing the rounds on the party circuit. Word is coming in from around the country warning of a new drug called ‘Sparkle’.
Sparkle, also known as the ‘legal MDMA’ seems to have effects including euphoria and increased brain activity similar to the Class A drug ecstasy. It sells for about 40 pounds per gram, and at the moment, UK’s biggest online “head shop”, selling drug paraphernalia, herbal stimulants and plant cultivation equipment, reported it had sold out of sparkle.
Law-enforcement attention has now switched to the potential dangers of more legal highs, notably sparkle, which is already being marketed as a legal alternative to mephedrone. “We have had emails about this one from operational cops all over the country for the last few months,” said Mal Taylor of the Police Federation. “We have had all sorts of slang names given to these substances in different parts of the country. We are looking into sparkle, but we just cannot say yet what is involved or exactly how dangerous it is.”

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