'Council must tackle legal highs'

“We recently suffered an epidemic of mephedrone use in Northern Ireland and found that it took three or four months to have that drug banned. I would call on the British-Irish Council to do more to help combat legal highs by allowing a speedier response to new designer drugs.

“I would call on the British-Irish Council to discuss the issue at their next meeting to see how we can further combat these drugs which are designed by international gangs to evade existing laws,” the UUP man commented.