Fertiliser ban

As a keen gardener, I am most annoyed that the government intends to ban the plant food mephedrone because a handful of people are claimed to have suffered ill health or death after misusing it as a drug of intoxication.

Will I become a criminal if I stock up on it before the ban? Or will my azaleas have to suffer because of a nanny state attitude towards the lack of self control of a few selfish drug-taking individuals who will stop at nothing to alter their state of consciousness?

JOHN EOIN DOUGLAS

Spey Terrace

Edinburgh