The Hebridean Celtic Festival has joined a campaign to help highlight the dangers of legal highs.
Over 40 music events are taking part in a ‘blackout’ campaign this summer which will call on the incoming Government after the General Election to raise awareness and improve education around the substances.
The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) organised a similar offensive last year when 26 festivals’ websites and social media accounts displayed a completely black window except for a grey light bulb and the message "Don't be in the Dark about Legal Highs."
This year event organisers will replace their online presence on 4 May with an image of a roulette wheel and the words ‘'You Could Lose the Lot on Legal Highs', as well as a list of the most commonly used substances.
The blackout campaign, which is being run in conjunction with the Angelus Foundation, a charity dedicated to raising awareness about the unpredictability of such substances and that the risk can be equivalent or even greater than illegal drugs.
According to the AIF, ‘legal highs’ continue to be an issue, with more than 100 new substances on the market in 2014 and over 60 recorded deaths.
Hebridean Celtic Festival backs campaign against legal highs
1 May 2015