TV Preview: Can I Get High Legally? – BBC3

Can I Get High Legally? BBC3, 9pm

LEGAL highs are sold openly in shops across the country and on the internet – herbs, aphrodisiacs, drinking chocolate, that kind of thing.

The result is thousands of different pills and powders that promise the same effects as illegal drugs without the criminal record – no arrests for possession and no back-street dealers.

Here BBC Radio 6 DJ George Lamb, right, sets out to discover why certain substances are legal and, equally importantly, whether this means they can also be described as safe.

Lamb meets the people who take them, a chap who sells them, and a doctor who says they are potentially more dangerous than class A drugs.

He travels to Guernsey where, conveniently, most of the young people he meets have tried them, and finally decides to take the plunge himself.

These party pills and herbal highs might be legal and easily accessible, says Lamb, but does that mean they should be so readily used? His programme, he claims, presents all the information needed to make a decision.

Of course, at this time of year there are plenty of other ways to achieve a high other than reaching for a suspicious looking substance. Is not nature's unending beauty enough to free us of our burdens and transport us to another level?

Forget drugs, just spend a few moments in contemplation as you watch a crow peck the remains of a roadkill badger.