Legal Highs: Inside Secrets of the World's Newest and Deadliest Drugs

True Crime veteran author Wensley Clarkson delivers one of his best efforts in Legal Highs. As stated in the headline, most people have no clue as to the myriad of substances that are available, mostly to teens and young adults, which are legal yet potentially lethal. Users in many cases have absolutely no true ability to know what they are taking or how it could impact them unless they try themselves. The market is highly lucrative and the book reveals some people in the industry from single mothers to young Oxford educated chemistry grads. This at present is one of the best looks into what people are imbibing and selling. And did I mention most are labeled 'Not for Human Consumption'?

Book Review: Legal Highs by Wensley ClarksonThis paperback book of 305 pages highlights the new craze of “legal highs” which are manufactured drugs that are supposed to be legal and which represent analogues of illegal drugs such as methamphetamines and marijuana.The book mostly reviews those characters now producing and/or selling the drugs throughout Europe and the USA. Many of the drugs are actually “cooked” in China and exported to Europe and elsewhere.The highlight and main object of the book are the interviews with those selling the so called legal high drugs who in the main, believe that these drugs are mostly harmless. However, the figures that are emerging from various countries where these drugs are a craze, show otherwise, The drug users as well as sellers believe these lethal drugs are legal because they have low potency but in fact the reality is mostly the opposite. The deaths resulting from the so-called legal highs are mounting day by day.Some of the drugs are known as spice, 2M2B (2 methyl 2 butanol), Bromo Dragonfly, 2Cp, mephedrone, Salvia, Benzo Fury and kratom. Bromo Dragonfly is renowned as an extremely potent psychedelic drug and is considered by toxicologists as well as the author as one of the most dangerous legal highs of all time.This is a very interesting book but which has no photographs or an index. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend this book to the interested reader and legal high addict because of its alerts and warnings and valuable information on a new pandemic.Dr Trevor J. Hawkeswood

Book Review: Legal Highs by Wensley ClarksonThis paperback book of 305 pages highlights the new craze of “legal highs” which are manufactured drugs that are supposed to be legal and which represent analogues of illegal drugs such as methamphetamines and marijuana.The book mostly reviews those characters now producing and/or selling the drugs throughout Europe and the USA. Many of the drugs are actually “cooked” in China and exported to Europe and elsewhere.The highlight and main object of the book are the interviews with those selling the so called legal high drugs who in the main, believe that these drugs are mostly harmless. However, the figures that are emerging from various countries where these drugs are a craze, show otherwise, The drug addicts believe these lethal drugs are legal because they have low potency but in fact the reality is mostly the opposite. The deaths resulting from the so-called legal highs are mounting day by day.Some of the drugs are known as spice, 2M2B (2 methyl 2 butanol), Bromo Dragonfly, @Cp, mephedrone, Salvia, Benzo Fury and kratom. Bromo Dragonfly is renowned as an extremely potent psychedelic drug and is considered by toxicologists as well as the author as one of the most dangerous legal highs of all time.This is a very interesting book but which has no photographs or an index. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend this book to the interested reader and drug addict because of its alerts and warnings and valuable information on a new pandemic.Dr Trevor J. HawkeswoodAuthor: Light and Dark (2013), Spiders of Australia (2003).

RUBBISH JUST A COLLECTION OF STORYS ABOUT UNKNOWN PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS..NOTHING ABOUT THE LEGAL HIGHS AVAILABLE NOW 2015 ALL ABOUT ONES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN BANNED WELL OUT OF DATE????

it was for a friend who has a problem son - she found it informative