FORMER MP Evan Harris has taken ecstasy for a Channel 4 show that will examine the effects of the class A drug.
He joins previously announced names, actor Keith Allen and novelist Lionel Shriver, in the controversial show.
Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial sees the participants given MDMA or a placebo before being placed inside a brain scanner on two separate occasions. Dr Harris, a former Liberal Democrat MP who lost the seat for Oxford West and Abingdon in the 2010 election, said that he wanted to help find a dose that might treat depression without giving the patient a high.
He admitted: “In order to be allowed to take part in the trial, I needed to have taken ecstasy at least once before without any ill-effects. Without going over my ‘ecstasy history’, I qualified.”