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Hello and welcome to Witness History with me Claire Bowes on the BBC World Service.

Today we're going back to 1964 and a moment which unlocked our understanding of one of the world's most popular

drugs, cannabis.

I've been speaking to an Israeli scientist who first figured out the chemical reaction which gets you high.

Professor Raffa Machulam also discovered the compound CBD, which has in recent years, had a revolutionary

impact on health.

In the 1960s, the recreational use of cannabis was banned.

Many in the West had never come across the drug, but as the swinging 60s got underway, it became better known, especially when stars like the

Rolling Stone singer Mick Jagger were arrested for possessing it.

Jagger, who was wearing a primrose frilled shirt with pleated yellow lace cuffs, put his hand to his face as he was given three months with 100 pounds cost.

For a moment he looked like fainting then prison officers moved forward to

take his arms and help him down to the cells. But when most saw an illegal drug

Professor Raffa M. Schulham saw a fascinating research project.

And I realized that surprisingly, while we knew quite a lot about cocaine,

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