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Mountain Scene By MATTHEW MCKEW Deadly bathsalts peddled as MDMA in Queenstown are putting young people in hospital as foreigners and others fund their time in the resort by drug dealing. Further, Queenstown’s top cop, detective senior sergeant Malcolm Inglis, says wastewater tests suggest the resort’s now the MDMA capital of New Zealand. Inglis says N-Ethylpentylone or bathsalts and mephedrone, commonly known as ‘M-Cat’ or ‘Meow Meow’, are being subbed in for MDMA to unsuspecting party-goers. Mephedrone first hit the headlines in 2010 when as a legal high it was connected to 25 deaths in the UK, and it’s since led to unsuspecting Kiwis being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment. ....