Your consciousness is your affair, says drug crusader

For the past 40 years Amanda Feilding has worked tirelessly to break down taboos surrounding LSD and other psychoactive drugs. Following a recent spate of research on psychedelics and cannabis, and with mainstream opinion turning against the war on drugs, she tells Graham Lawton that she finally feels vindicated

How did you get interested in issues around drugs and drug policy?
I’ve always been an outsider. I grew up in an isolated house surrounded by three moats. There was no money. I left school early. It was a…