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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.
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They studied 20 drugs in total, including legal as well as illegal substances, and [...]