Glastonbury festival refuses 'golden opportunity' drugs test on sewage

Wastewater analysis project to detect legal highs and illicit drugs is turned down by festival founder Michael Eavis as 'a cheek'Glastonbury festival has vetoed the first major attempt to test the use of legal highs and illicit drugs at a British festival by sampling sewage.The exercise to be carried by analytical toxicologists had the backing of the police and involved the use of the emerging science of "wastewater analysis", which can detect even very low concentrations of illicit drugs in liq...

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