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Amanda Feilding

Amanda Feilding is the Countess of Wemyss and March, an English artist, scientist and drug policy reformer.

 

Feliding gained notoriety in 1970 after drilling a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill (with the help of Joe) as part of a short cult art film about trepanation entitled Heartbeat in the Brain.

 

In 1998, she founded the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust that promotes an evidence-based approach to drug policies and conducts neuroscientific research into psychoactive substances its the effects on the brain and cognition.

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Uploaded on February 25, 2016
Taken on February 10, 2016