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Drugs adviser says politics rules

Political expediency “rules the roost” over scientific advice, one of the three latest government drug advisers to resign has told BBC News. Dr Simon Campbell quit the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs on Monday, over the sacking of chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt. [...] He told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: “When [...]

Lies About Marijuana Drive People to a Much More Harmful Drug — Booze

Professor David Nutt didn’t play the game. As the chief drug policy advisor in the British Government, an unspoken part of his job description was to help maintain a public fiction about marijuana – or cannabis, as it is known in the U.K. and other parts of the world.  Specifically, he was expected to further the misperception [...]

Arbitrary classification has little to do with science

The current system of placing illegal drugs into one of three classes – A, B or C – depending on their legal status, has long been criticised by medical authorities concerned that it is based on arbitrary considerations rather than evidence-based science. [...] They studied 20 drugs in total, including legal as well as illegal [...]