Glastonbury bans laughing gas from Stone Circle "sacred space"
Bosses say the area has lost its way
Glastonbury organisers have urged festival goers to avoid bringing laughing gas to the Stone Circle this year.
A statement from Liz Eliot, co-ordinator of the Green Fields, described the King’s Meadow area of the festival as having “lost its way” recently with festival-goers using it as a place to take drugs.
She said: “It breaks our hearts to see our Scared Space used this way.
“It’s become known as a place where people take nitrous oxide, a damaging drug which pollutes our beautiful field with noise, litter and N2O gas (a greenhouse gas which is 298 times more polluting than carbon dioxide.)”
She has also warned that there was a major injury on the site last year after a nitrous gas canister exploded.
Two tonnes of empty nitrous gas canisters were picked up by hand at Glastonbury 2014 and organisers have stressed that they want restore the Stone Circle to its original purpose, a place representing the major stars of constellation Cygnus.
Kanye West and Foo Fighters are among the big names set to top the bill at this year’s festival in Somerset, with lots of speculation mounting over the identity of a mystery third headliner.
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