Is that baloney or do you think drugs really can inspire great

art? I think there's a cost-benefit analysis with all of this.

I mean, Eric Clapton used to say that smoking dope certainly...

I suppose it releases inhibitions.

I mean, you know, in all honesty, you couldn't have had the 60s without LSD and cannabis, you know, because it opened up people's vistas.

I mean, Britain had gone through this whole black and white beige period through the 1950s and into the early 60s.

And then there was this just explosion of popular culture, whether it was music, art, film, fashion, everything really.

As you see it, what are the key drug issues at the moment in the UK?