Revellers warned of new drug’s dangers

Health experts fear dealers will use the summer music festivals to supply a new hallucinogenic chemical to unsuspecting drug users.

NBOMe, which is produced mainly in China and India, is sold in square paper blotters and sugar cubes, the way mind-alerting drug LSD has traditionally been sold.

There have been reports across Europe that the drug is being sold as LSD, but experts say that while it affects the same region of the brain, it is a different chemical and has other, largely unknown side-effects.