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A pharmacist caught with a magic mushroom drug has claimed he bought the substance while it was still legal and "forgot" he had it.
John Russell Pugh, of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, received an official warning for possessing Psilocin at an RPSGB disciplinary hearing last week.
Mr Pugh told the hearing he works as a locum pharmacist and had purchased the hallucinatory drug 15 years ago when it had been legal. The substance had been placed in a drawer and kept, even when Psilocin was added to the list of banned drugs, he said.
Mr Pugh added: "I didn't realise I had them and they changed the law three years ago."
