4.4 • 973 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Intoxication - In a special programme, Laurie Taylor explores the role and meaning of both alcohol and drugs in human life. Why do so many people chose to alter their consciousness with stimulants, whether legal or illicit? Professor James Mills, the author of 'Cannabis Nation..' is joined by Professor Fiona Measham and Professor Chris Hackley.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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1:20.3 | Hello we all used to admire Jim you see. You see he was a seven-pinter. He could go out |
1:25.9 | in a Saturday night in Liverpool and drink seven whole pints of beer and two rum and peps and |
1:29.9 | still be able to walk in a straight line, still be sober enough to gain entrance to the Star of the Sea dance after the pubs throughout, |
1:36.4 | and miracle of miracles, he still had enough speech control to be able to chat up a woman before |
1:41.1 | the last wolf was called. Well Jeff, Robert and I, we could never keep up. After |
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