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BBC Newsbeat
14:34 GMT, Thursday, 19 May 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13451137
14:34 GMT, Thursday, 19 May 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13451137
Music festival organisers are being urged to do more to tackle legal highs.
Baroness Browning, the government's minister for crime prevention, has written an open letter to the organisers of the UK's top events.
She's concerned about the demand for legal highs and wants more to be done to stop them being taken:
"While people selling these products may give the impression they are legal and safe, they are more than likely not legal, and are not safe."
"We want to help ensure festivals are as safe an environment as possible to help protect the public, especially young people, from the potential harms and risks of all drugs."
Festival organisers of Leeds, Reading, Big Chill, Bestival, Latitude, V and T in the park all a blanket policy, no legal highs on site.
"We treat legal highs the same as illegal drug, they are banned."
Glastonbury also said: "We take the issue of legal highs very seriously. We have passed on the contact details for the only trader we have on site out of over 900 traders that trades in legal highs to the local police."