Group Nang-ban: Glastonbury Bans Legal Highs

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Group Nang-ban: Glastonbury Bans Legal Highs

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Where to stand on legal highs? Glastonbury – along with 20 other UK music festivals have certainly come to their conclusions – banning the sale and use of drugs over the summer.

As part of an initiative from the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), Glastonbury has joined forces with authorities to shed light on the potentially dangerous substances after a string of deaths due to the drugs. Indeed, the rate of death has hiked by 80% with 10 reported deaths in 2009 to 68 in 2012 according to data from St George’s, University of London.

When considering the concept itself, the proof is in the pill-pudding. Sold in sex and other novelty shops and online outlets – legal highs are manufactured by overseas markets to constantly evade the perpetually growing list of government banned ingredients. With production moving at a faster rate than authorities can control, many festival goers are under the belief that because the substances are legal – they are somehow safer, when the opposite is true.

In this, the AIF is also on the crusade to ban nitrous oxide canisters (aka, ‘laughing gas’, ‘nangs’, ‘bulbs’, ‘whippets’), a bush doof favourite which, apart from making you look like a sedated old moose is a pretty easy way to rip a hole in your brain. Classy.

Obviously there’s an irony here, in that the ol’ party favourites (MDMA, Eccys lad, acid and le cocaine) are proving to be safer by default. We know what the effects are, the common ingredients, and how to treat those who run into issues in use. We’re not advocating drug use but hell, it seems like if you are inclined to get on it, you may as well use the alchemy that’s tried and trusted.

What do you think?

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[via Mixmag and The Daily Mail]

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