'Legal highs' off the bill at this year's Glastonbury Festival

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'Legal highs' off the bill at this year's Glastonbury Festival

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/legal-highs-off-bill-years-glastonbury-festival-151536507.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MvptdX8ZFlzeOihe6N6kSQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-06-29T151536Z_1_LYNXMPEA5S0A9_RTROPTP_2_MUSIC-GLASTONBURY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Festival goers watch Metallica perform on the Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, during the Glastonbury Festival" align="left" title="Festival goers watch Metallica perform on the Pyramid stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, during the Glastonbury Festival" border="0" /></a>By Paul Sandle PILTON England (Reuters) - Revellers enjoyed plenty of mood enhancement along with the music at the Glastonbury Festival, but this year any euphoria was less likely to be fueled by so-called &quot;legal highs&quot; after organizers took a stand against them. Glastonbury, which attracts more than 135,000 people, joined with other festivals earlier this year to ban the drugs, which mimic the effect of illegal drugs like Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis but are legal and have in the past been sold openly at stalls. Britain's Association of Independent Festivals coordinated the campaign under the banner: &quot;Don't be in the Dark About Legal Highs&quot;. England-based consultant psychiatrist Ian Rodin, who is part of the medical team at Glastonbury, applauded the effort to highlight the risks of the drugs.</p><br clear="all"/>

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