In a move sure to drum up a little controversy to coincide with the reissue of the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street, Mick Jagger has suggested that all illicit narcotics should be legalised on the Isle of Man.

The Rolling Stones frontman told CNN’s Larry King that “The whole question of legalising drugs is fraught. You usually try these things out in very small places. You know, like you try a new product out in a small kind of society or an island somewhere”.

“In England they always try out new mobile phones in the Isle of Man,” he explained, “They’ve got a captive society. You should try the legalisation of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.”

Reminiscing about the recording sessions for Exile Jagger recently admitted that “There was lots of drugs and lots of drinking and lots of carrying on, but you know, it [was] not a factory, a mill in the north of England. You know, it’s a rock n roll environment.”