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	Podcast:		The History Hour
	Episode:		Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:50:50
	Publish Date:		2021-05-15 13:06:00
	Description:		# Warning: This programme contains descriptions of drug use # In 1955 Christopher Mayhew MP took the hallucinogenic drug mescaline for a TV experiment. We look back at the history of psychedelic research and speak to Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London. Plus, the battle to legalise contraception in Ireland, a pro-democracy activist in China, the chemical and biological weapons programme in apartheid South Africa, and why thousands of Jews secretly fled Iraq in the 1970s.
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