Q: What are legal highs?
"Legal highs" are psychoactive chemicals that aren't licensed for legal use or covered by the 1971 Misuse Of Drugs Act.
Moreover, because sellers often market them disingenuously — calling them "plant fertiliser", for example, or "bath salts" — legal highs can avoid being regulated by the 1968 Medicines Act.
Many legal highs purport to offer the same effects as illegal drugs. Salvia, for example, is a dried plant leaf that is typically referred to as "legal ecstasy".
One of the more popular legal highs in the UK at the moment is mephedrone, a stimulant producing psychoactive effects that are reportedly similar to cocaine and ecstasy.
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