If you are found in possession of drugs you may be arrested and are liable to prosecution and/or may not be allowed to go into the festival. If you are found with drugs once on site, you may be ejected and/or arrested.
Can you bring drugs into Reading Festival?
Drugs Policy
The only way to avoid risks is to not take drugs at all. This goes for new psychoactive substances (formerly known as “legal highs”) as well. We still want our festival-goers to know that you can come to us for help if you or your friends need it, without fear of getting in trouble at any time.
Do they have sniffer dogs at Reading Festival?
Sniffer dogs will be operating in the area, please have your bag ready to be searched at the gates.
Do you get searched at Reading Festival?
You may be searched at the entrances and upon exit from the festival site.
What happens if caught with drugs at Glastonbury?
Any items which the organisers consider may be used in an illegal or offensive manner will be confiscated. Persons suspected of carrying out illegal and / or offensive activities onsite may be searched.” If you bring drugs with you, you risk having them confiscated and possible eviction from the Festival.
Is Reading Festival security strict?
There are security measures you will see and of course, ones that you can’t. The whole site is monitored throughout by staff on the ground along with an extensive CCTV system watched round the clock by a team of monitors in a fully staffed Event Control.
Can you bring Vapes into Reading Festival?
At Reading and Leeds, festival-goers can bring cigarettes for personal use into both the campsite and arenas, while e-cigarettes are also allowed.
Can sniffer dogs smell Coke?
Most sniffer dogs can be trained to pick up the smell of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, opiates, ecstasy and LSD.
Can sniffer dogs smell pills?
Whilst most sniffer dogs are trained to detect hard drugs, like cocaine, heroin and ecstasy, they also have the ability to detect lower-class drugs and pills. The list of substances that dogs can detect is always increasing in size.
Can you smoke at Reading Festival?
We’ll see you real soon.
Got a question about what you can and can’t bring to Reading?
| Item | Campsite | Arena |
|---|---|---|
| Cans | Yes | No |
| Chairs | Yes | No |
| Cigarettes for personal use | Yes | Yes |
Can you sleep in your car at Reading Festival?
The designated campervan/caravan area of the site is the only place where ticket holders can sleep in vehicles. We do not permit sleeping in cars and security will ask you to leave the car park.
What you can and cant take to Reading Festival?
Only food for personal consumption can be brought into the Arena. We only allow sealed water under 500ml, as well as empty reusable plastic and metal bottles of any size into the Arena. Please refill your empty bottles at the water points inside the Arena for free.
What is Reading Festival security like?
Security is pretty BS as it is at any festival. There’s too many people there for them to properly police it, what the security are looking for 99% of the time is anything obviously dangerous to others and drug dealers.
How common are drugs at Glastonbury?
Samples taken from the river in 2019, when more than 200,000 people thronged the five-day summer festival in Somerset, southwest England, found MDMA concentrations were four times higher the week after the festival.
Is Glastonbury strict on drugs?
Thank you for subscribing! Glastonbury Festival itself says that the ‘dealing of or use of illegal drugs is not condoned at the festival‘. Terms and conditions of entry state that people can be searched onsite and at the entrance to the festival.
Can you bring drugs to Glastonbury?
Confiscation. Glastonbury Festival reserves the right to refuse access to patrons carrying substances which cannot be confirmed as being bona fide prescribed medication. In such instances gate staff may require that medicines be surrendered at the gate or returned to a vehicle or similar.
What is banned from Reading Festival?
Some of the items that are not allowed at the event: Flares and fireworks – possession will lead to being removed from the festival and could result in 3 months in prison and/or a fine, according to the festival website. Firewood won’t be allowed into the campsites.
Can you take drugs into Leeds Fest?
Leeds Festival does not condone the use of drugs. It is illegal to buy, sell or take drugs. Drugs enforcement laws are as applicable onsite as anywhere else in the UK but we want our festival goers to know above all else that you can come to us for help without fear of getting in trouble at any time.
Is there sniffer dogs at Leeds festival?
We put a lot of time and effort on briefing and training and run emergency exercises. We also have a team of sniffer dogs working around the clock.
Is there an alcohol limit at Reading Festival?
There is a limit of 24 cans and a 1 litre plastic bottle of spirit or wine per person. Any alcohol in glass bottles must be decanted into plastic bottles.
Is there a curfew at Reading Festival?
At Reading Festival there is usually a curfew in the later hours of the evening for loud music to not disturb the locals.