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An Italian TV show has been surreptitiously drug-testing 50 members of parliament<\/a>, allegedly finding that 12 MPs tested smoke weed and 4 tested positive for cocaine:<\/p>\n

The programme sent a reporter to interview lower house deputies allegedly for a programme about the 2007 draft budget currently going through parliament. . . . But unbeknown to each of them, the make-up artist employed by the show was dabbing their brow with swabs, and their perspiration was later tested for cannabis and cocaine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any guesses how our own House of Reps would fare?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Italian TV show has been surreptitiously drug-testing 50 members of parliament, allegedly finding that 12 MPs tested smoke weed and 4 tested positive for cocaine: The programme sent a reporter to interview lower house deputies allegedly for a programme about the 2007 draft budget currently going through parliament. . . . But unbeknown to … <\/p>\n

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