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Glastonbury has become the latest UK festival to back an online campaign to highlight the dangers of so-called legal highs.
A huge number of high-profile UK festivals are taking part in website 'blackout' to draw attention to the widespread use of the alternative to illegal drugs, after a series of deaths in recent years due to the controversial substances. Glastonbury festival joined the blackout, which took place on 5 May 2014.
The aim of the campaign is to dispel the misconception that legal highs are safe to use, highlighting the fact that last year saw an 80% increase in deaths from legal highs - from 29 to 52.
There are over 280 psychoactive synthetic drugs that are not covered by existing drug laws, with health researchers describing taking legal highs as like "dancing in a minefield."
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For an entire day, the festival's websites and social media will be thrown into darkness, with the homepages displaying a black page adorned only with a grey light bulb and the message "Don't be in the Dark about Legal Highs."
Upon clicking the light bulb, information about legal highs will appear and the user will be able to find out more. It's not a complete blackout though, as it will then also be possible to navigate to the regular festival homepage.
The full list of festivals participating in the blackout on 5 May is as follows: T in the Park, Bestival, Lovebox, Global Gathering, Secret Garden Party, Sonisphere, We Are FSTVL, 2000trees, ArcTanGent, Kendal Calling, Festibelly, Blissfields, Truck, Brownstock, Y Not Festival, Tramlines, Belladrum Tartan Heart, Leefest, Nozstock, Wakestock, Shambala, Glasgow Summer Sessions, Parklife and Eden Sessions.
