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Jon Snow has revealed he once drove down the motorway high on acid.

The Channel 4 news host made the admission ahead of chairing the debates on the programme Drugs Live tonight.

Writing a blog about his own experiences, 64-year-old Snow said: “I think I was about 22, and someone had spiked a delicious strawberry flan with LSD at a party in Oxford. I had two slices.

It wasn’t long before I felt the need to go home. Five of us had driven in a Mini, from London. We got back into the car and set off down the M40.

“Almost immediately I seemed to be being assaulted by the white lines, flashing into my head.

"Then as I approached the first bridge over the road I became convinced that the car was too big to pass through it. I pulled over to the hard shoulder.

“The one person, who proved not to have eaten of the flan, took over the driving.

"By the time we reached my flat above the drug dependents’ day centre where I worked, I was all over the place.

"We had deliberated on the journey and concluded that we were on a trip in which our tyres did not connect with any road surface.”

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Snow says he then got home and put some classical music on to listen to and drank orange juice.

He added: “The awfulness began to subside into something more pleasurable.

"When the music stopped the tireless trudge began again .. so the music resumed.

"The next morning as I descended to work I concluded that I had finally joined the vulnerable young people I was supposed to be counselling.”

Explaining his role on the new Channel 4 show, Snow added: “In ‘Drugs Live’ I shall not be tripping.

"Instead I shall be anchoring a genuinely exciting Home Office approved trial of the drug MDMA – Ecstasy.

“Professor David Nutt of Imperial College, the former Drugs Czar, says the trial has already yielded three dramatic scientific breakthroughs in the way Ecstasy works in the brain.

“We explore the dangers and beneficial therapeutic potential. It’s eye opening stuff and feel honoured to be part of it.”