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Spice's 'legal high' - not so nice?

Updated on 17 February 2009

By David Fuller

Is "spice" our new drugs menace? Or a harmless fraud ? More4 News reports on the concerns growing over a so-called legal high.

Drugs and the law is never a subject far from the news, and usually we report on arguments over the classification of drugs or how to clamp down on the trade in illegal narcotics.

But what does government do about a new drug that is unquestionably legal, but which sets out to mimic the effects of marijuana, with its attendant dangers?

David Fuller reports on the legal high that's setting the pulses of the drugs watchdogs racing.

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