Legal highs: two arrested
Date published: 25 May 2016
An owner of a shop selling legal highs and a shop worker have been arrested after nine people fell ill after taking the substances in Greater Manchester.
It comes on the eve of a UK ban on manufacturing or selling the products.
A number of people have required medical treatment, with two seriously ill, after taking legal highs in Rochdale, since Friday.
The arrests, on suspicion of supplying class B drugs, relate to a shop called Clear Vapour, which has been closed.
Two men aged 61 and 34 are being held as police investigate whether the legal highs contain any illegal substances.
Police said one of the four who collapsed in Rochdale on Tuesday after taking a number of legal highs including 'Clockwork Orange' had a cardiac arrest and is in intensive care.
The other man who became seriously ill on Friday and was in an induced coma has now recovered and been discharged, said police.
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