Maryon Stewart has been campaigning to raise awareness of the dangers of “legal highs” for the last year since her 21 year old daughter Hester (pictured left), a medical student, passed away after being given half a dose of a substance called GBL.

Despite getting this and a number of other substances banned Maryon has come to realise that for every ban, there are dozens more so called “legal highs” placed on the market by money hungry chemists in China. It’s become a multi million pound industry from the sales to children as young as 12. Side effects range from severe nose bleeds, depression, paranoia to bladder incontinence, coma and, in some cases, even death.

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