Call for legal high crackdown after teens taken ill

LEGAL highs have been branded accessible and dangerous by an MP after five teenagers were taken to hospital.

Synthetic cannabis, known as Spice, which was taken by the five Lancaster University students. SUBMITTED

Barrow-born Lancaster MP Cat Smith yesterday spoke of her concern about five students who were hospitalised after taking former legal high Spice.

The 29-year-old former Lancaster University student has pledged to push for government legislation to protect the public from the dangerous.

She said: “It’s not just students who take legal highs. People are changing the chemical make-up to make them legal and replicate illegal drugs. Manufactured highs will get round the law all the time.

“We have had no legislation to keep up with the drug industry which is why people can buy some of these substances legally. They sell them in pound shops. It’s totally accessible and totally dangerous.”

It comes after police reported five...

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