Adolescence is typically a period for teenagers to experiment, take risks and to be adventurous and now that legal highs are becoming more popular due to the low prices, the demand for it is increasing more than ever.
"Wining and dining, drinking and driving, excessive buying, overdosing, dying"
Legal highs have changed they way people take drugs and also how they get them. Camden Market is one of the few towns that sell legal highs like powders, pills, smoking mixtures, liquids, capsules, or on perforated tabs. One drug that is called 'Salvia', one of the worlds most powerful natural hallucinogenics, is being sold in the Camden Market and even though it is illegal for human consumption it is still being sold like a twenty pence lollipop.
Accessible and cheap, legal highs are now present at every social event regardless of the risk that it could cause on the person taking it. A box of Laughing gas (nitrous oxide), is sold Amazon for twenty five pounds for 100 canisters but not as an legal drug, but for it's original use to create the necessary cold pressure to whip cream. The high the person experiences when inhaling lasts for thirty seconds, but in that thirty seconds your brain is being starved of oxygen.
When 17 year old Joseph Bennet died from an heart attack thought to be from inhaling 'laughing gas' but later on to be hazardous gasses, it highlights the danger of purchasing legal highs from stores and online websites and also taking it in the first place.
Drug minister Norman Baker recently announced that "eighty-eight per cent of the legal highs associated with deaths, have already been controlled and are banned.
Legal highs copy the same affects as class A drugs like cocaine, ecstasy and speed, however the difference is, is that users are able to get away with it.
Legal highs are becoming the epitome of youth culture and it seems like the craze isn't fading anytime soon but, isn't their more to life than getting 'high' for 30 seconds?
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