After a series of reports published in this paper highlighting the devastating effects of addiction to meow meow, the Centre has finally taken serious cognisance of the issue and made the drug illegal. A finance ministry notification has declared the drug as a psychotropic substance under the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, deeming it illegal.

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