Festival-goes have been buying “vegan alternatives to cocaine” at the start of a five-day revelling spree in Glastonbury.
Around 200,000 people will descend on rural Somerset at Worthy Farm this weekend.
The event is being headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay and country star Shania Twain.
However, after battling with chaos at London Paddington following a death on the tracks, partying Britons have turned to woke alternatives to illicit substances.
Discarded nitrous oxide canisters in a car park, at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in SomersetPAFestival-goers have been pictured inhaling laughing gas from balloons on the grass and a small mobile cart was seen flogging bottles supposedly containing a “vegan alternative to cocaine”.
Karmaceuticals advertises its product on social media as a “tool” to “help you be your best authentic self and boss Glasto weekend like an absolute legend”.
The substance is not actually cocaine and is legal to sell.
It sustains high-octane levels and prevents “over-consumption, over-stimulation and burn-out”.
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People walk through the market and shopping area at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset
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Revellers have arrived at Glastonbury at the same time as local junior doctors plan industrial action.
NHS Somerset responded by sharing tips to festival-goers about how to “stay well” during periods of hot weather to help “ease pressure on health and care”.
“We know that services will be under pressure this week,” Dr Bernie Marden, chief medical officer for NHS Somerset, said.
“With Glastonbury Festival also taking place this week and expected warm weather, we are sharing a few reminders about simple steps people can take to look after themselves, and stay healthy and well.”
An ambulance attends the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset
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Attendees yesterday complained about queuing for hours without water in sweltering heat.
Temperatures had soared to 28C amid concern about “mass strokes”.
Videos circulating on social media showed thousands of people lined up carrying rucksacks and mats and wearing sun hats, as they waited to get into campsites.
Visitors branded the lack of water amid the sizzling temperatures a “joke”, adding that coach companies had also failed to hydrate passengers while bussing them to the festival.