OPPONENTS of a new shop in Sidcup selling legal highs have been told to "get a life".

High Life in Station Road opened around a month ago and has already attracted attention after advertising free home delivery for canisters of nitrous oxide at £20 for 24.

Designed for making whipped cream, they can also be inhaled to starve the brain of oxygen and give users a brief high.

A grandmother-of-six living nearby is worried kids have been getting a buzz from the canisters after spotting clusters of discarded cans in The Glade park when out with her grandsons aged three and five.

Dawn Acheson, 59, says the shop should not have been allowed to open right next to the Old Farm Avenue bus stop used by Hurstmere School and Sidup and Chislehurst Grammar School pupils.

The Hatherley Road resident said: "It's shocking to be honest because they are young kids doing it.

"The shop is designed to encourage kids that drugs are fun.

"I don’t think it’s appropriate."

News Shopper found some scattered across Old Farm Avenue car park at the rear of the shop, which sells cannabis smoking paraphernalia and other cannabis-themed items.

Sidcup Cycle Centre owner Nigel Hill, whose business is across the road from High Life, said: "I would rather we had a business that served the local community in a more holistic manor".

But hairdresser Alan Northfield at Ginger’s hair salon said: "Personally I am not against the shop but if it starts impacting on local life there will be issues."

Builder George Chargers, who helped install the tattoo parlour soon to be opened at the back of High Life, said: "To the people that are complaining, go get a f***ing life."

Co-owner Scott Harley added: "We don’t let under 18s in the shop and we have got a clear sign on the door saying we don’t.

"We have got no control over what people do with the canisters."

Last May News Shopper recorded a shop assistant at Skunkworks in Avenue Road, Bexleyheath, telling us how to inhale nitrous oxide despite warnings on the packaging which said: "Misuse can be dangerous to your health! Do not inhale!"