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"Street of Shame". Private Eye No. 1259, p. 6:. 2010-04-02.
Way back in January 2009, not long after mephedrone first began to be sold online, members of the web forum attached to the now-defunct "headshop" Champagne Legals discussed what brand name they might attach to the new product, which has the chemical identity dimethylmethcathinone or MM-Cat.
"What shall we call this drug? It's called MM-CAT, so why not Miaow?" suggested one. The name did not catch on ... But on 1 November 2009, someone did add the name "Meow" to the Wikipedia entry for Mephedrone at the head of a list of "street names."
Three weeks later ... the Sun declared the arrival of a "new party favourite called 'meow meow'" and the world went cat-call crazy.
Among a host of recent headlines the Sunday Times has reported on "the rise of Meow", the Times has heralded "Meow Meow arrests", the Sun shrieked about a "Harman snub for Meow Meow Ban" and the Daily Telegraph took a long hard look at the "Meow Meow Menace in Europe."
"No one ever called it Meow seriously till the papers picked up on the Wikipedia entry," one drugs expert tells the Eye.
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http://tpp.sagepub.com/content/1/2/35.extract (includes info that the UK banned the wrong compound at first. Woops!)
http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/35/6/203
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/8/8.1.short
http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/7382
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6789/is-mephedrone-as-dangerous-as-uk-government-advice-claims

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The scatty effect[edit]

on the 3rd and 4th day of being on mkat your brain starts to realise its lacking sleep and starts to play up "scatty" the effect consists loss of memory unable to determine where you are. Researchers have recently found out that one "scatty" victim can trigger the effects in another drug user that has been in the company of the "scatty" victim... 31.94.56.109 (talk) 05:37, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting source for serotonergic neurotoxicity[edit]

Hello, ive read the paper about the purported neurotoxicity to serotonergic neurons. Source 27 is included, which states that mephedrone likely has no serotonergic neurotoxic effects, even though the statement in the wikitext says it does.

I'd like someone more knowledgeable about Wiki to look to it. Thanks! NDElsga (talk) 18:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]