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BBC Newsbeat
10:46 GMT, Friday, 3 February 2012
By Nick Beake
Newsbeat reporter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16866929
10:46 GMT, Friday, 3 February 2012
By Nick Beake
Newsbeat reporter
The scientists - who've advised the government before - told Newsbeat that more than 41 new substances were detected across Europe in 2011, breaking the previous year's tally.
Newsbeat went to Edinburgh to meet 24-year-old Harry. "I've used a few legal substances," he tells us on his way to college. "From research chemicals to herbal highs." He also admits to taking banned drugs and claims his experience of legal highs have been positive. "It was a pretty intense kind of hallucination… it makes you forget about a lot of things, so you can just concentrate on what's there in the moment."
Dr John Ramsey tests new legal highs in his laboratory at St George's medical school in London. He told Newsbeat that some of the new substances he comes across are potentially very dangerous: "We've got a compound we found a couple of days ago which is potent at 100 micrograms - that's a tiny amount. "Most drugs are active at about 100 milligrams. This one is about a 1000 times more potent. "The risks people are taking are just not worth it."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16866929