{"id":435,"date":"2010-05-28T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=435"},"modified":"2010-05-28T19:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:52:25","slug":"official-the-m-cat-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2010\/05\/28\/official-the-m-cat-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: The M-Cat is Dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8211; remember those deaths that were linked to mephedrone use? \u00a0The ones that started a moral panic and that led to the erstwhile government banning the drug in a desperate attempt to curry favour with the tabloids in the fag-end of the Parliament? \u00a0Yep &#8211; those ones.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/10184803.stm\">Wainwright and Smith hadn&#8217;t even taken the stuff<\/a>. \u00a0It therefore couldn&#8217;t have killed them.<\/p>\n<p>Hands up who saw that one coming.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>All of you.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8211; remember those deaths that were linked to mephedrone use? \u00a0The ones that started a moral panic and that led to the erstwhile government banning the drug in a desperate attempt to curry favour with the tabloids in the fag-end of the Parliament? \u00a0Yep &#8211; those ones. Well, it turns out that Wainwright and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2010\/05\/28\/official-the-m-cat-is-dead\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}