A WOMAN who has witnessed firsthand how legal highs can tear a young person's life apart has launched her own campaign to have them banned.
More than 400 have signed an online petition started by Alisha Simpson, 20, of Bar Lane, Mapplewell, calling for a ban on over the counter sales of legal highs in shops - such as Smokey Sam's on Sheffield Road - which you must be 18 to buy.
She also has the backing of Barnsley MP Dan Jarvis who has fought a long battle to ban so-called legal highs or 'new psychoactive substances', taking his fight to government which is now looking at ways to introduce a blanket ban.
Alisha said: "I have a lot of first hand experience of legal highs with my brother who is addicted to them.
"I want the petition to raise awareness and to stop the sale of over the counter sales because it's going to make it a lot harder for young people to get their hands on them.
"My little brother is 19 and even when he was 16 he was getting his hands on them."
Full story in the Barnsley Chronicle dated Friday September 11.
