Brighton Science Festival Drugs Shock

Children as young as six seen manufacturing drugs in school, helped by their parents

Olympic successes are mind-boggling. Hear about them from gold medallist Tim Foster and Professor David Cowan, dope tester-in-chief at the 2012 Olympics, Tuesday 23rd February, at Doping For Gold.

For over forty years there was a blanket ban on psychedelic drugs. Now, with the development of MRI scans, research of psychedelics could reveal the hidden depths of the mind. Dr Robin Carhart-Harris is the first person in the UK to have legally administered doses of LSD since 1971. He’ll be discussing it on Big Science Sunday 28th February.

But if you want a real high, take a trip to Pluto! The New Horizons fly-by was out of this world – 4,670,000,000 miles out of this world. It and the Rosetta mission were triumphs of human endeavour and creativity. They’ll be showing how it’s done on Saturday 27th February at ‘Because It’s There!’.

Check out the full Big Science weekend’s programme (February 27-28) at www.BrightonScience.com. You can also find out more about the FREE displays, including more drug manufacturing (medicinal again) as well as snail racing (No, not a hallucination).