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2010-12
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether licences, authorities or permissions were required for Professor Nutt to possess and inject the class A drug psilocybin into human subjects on the BBC programme, The Brain, A Secret History.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether licences, authorities or permissions were required for Professor Nutt to possess and inject the class A drug psilocybin into human subjects on the BBC programme, The Brain, A Secret History.
Asked by
Jim Dobbin
(Labour)
Answered by
James Brokenshire
(Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
19 January 2011
For answer on
24 January 2011
Answered on
26 January 2011
[holding answer 24 January 2011]: A licence is required to possess psilocybin, which is controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and listed in schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. Those working with schedule 1 drugs in their capacity as researchers and under Home Office licence to possess do not need a specific Home Office authority to administer.The psilocybin used on the BBC programme, The Brain, A Secret History, was lawfully possessed by Bristol university under Home Office licence and was lawfully taken to Cardiff university, where the research took place, under the supervision of the licence holder.
Subjects
Licensing; Psilocybin
Date
26 January 2011
Reference
522 c347W; 35745
House
House of Commons