High Court strikes down Act, renders drugs legal

A case involving a man accused of possessing an illegal drug in 2012 has upturned Ireland's Misuse of Drugs Act, rendering a host of narcotics legal. The Government is convening to introduce emergency legislation to amend this situation. Stanislav Bederev is denying criminal charges of having possession of methylethcathinone in 2012. The drug, which also known as Mephedrone, M-CAT and meow meow, was put on the controlled drugs list in 2010, around the time of the explosion of so-called 'head shops' selling 'legal highs'. Lawyers for Bederev argued that due to a lack of principles of policies regarding the addition of drugs…