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David Nutt - Govenment Misleading Us

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  1. Mr Nice

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    The UK's chief drugs adviser has been sacked by Home Secretary Alan Johnson, after criticising government policies.
    Professor David Nutt, head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, criticised the decision to reclassify cannabis to Class B from C.
    He accused ministers of devaluing and distorting evidence and said drugs classification was being politicised.
    The home secretary said he had "lost confidence" in his advice and asked him to step down.
    The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is the UK's official drugs advisory body.
    Following his sacking, Prof Nutt told the BBC he stood by his claim that cannabis should not be a Class B drug, based on its effects.
    He described his sacking as a "serious challenge to the value of science in relation to the government".

    And he denied that he had been trying to undermine the government's policies on drugs.
    "I am disappointed because, to be honest, all I was trying to do was help. I wasn't challenging the government," said the former adviser.
    "We can help them. We can give them very good advice, and it would be much more simpler if they took that advice rather than getting tangled up in other sorts of messages which frankly really do confuse the public."
    Prof Nutt said he was not prepared to "mislead" the public about the effects of drugs in order to convey a moral "message" on the government's behalf.
    Earlier this week Prof Nutt used a lecture at King's College, London, to attack what he called the "artificial" separation of alcohol and tobacco from illegal drugs.
    The professor said smoking cannabis created only a "relatively small risk" of psychotic illness.
    Phil Willis MP, chairman of the science and technology select committee, said he would write to the home secretary to ask for clarification as to why Prof David Nutt had been sacked "at a time when independent scientific advice to government is essential".
    "It is disturbing if an independent scientist should be removed for reporting sound scientific advice," he said.



    full story... BBC NEWS | UK | Cannabis row drugs adviser sacked



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    This just shows that the government has an agenda against cannabis. Why would they go against the advice of guys like David Nutt who spent years studying the effects?
    Answers on a postcard.....


    * the government!
     
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    They dont want to be seen to promote the fact that cannabis etc is actually not as harmful as they would like us to think. Just the goverment for you sacking an adviser as soon as he says something they dont like.

    Am all for the legalisation of cannabis we would have a very chilled out country :50:
     
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    Why does the government want us to think that cannabis is more harmful than it actually is? :97:

    Why criminalize a section of the poulation based not on facts but on their own agenda?

    This is not what goverments should be doing with regards to the drug issue surely.

    They say they have lost confidence in Prof Nutt, well I say we should all officially lose confidence in the government and the way they distort the truth to suit their own evil agenda.
     
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    Alcohol is much more harmful. It's been established that it's not possible to overdose or anything from cannabis. Not that the government care about that though...
     
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    Think confidence was lost a long time ago,
     
  6. Mr Nice

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    Home Secretary Alan Johnson Defends Sacking Professor David Nutt Over Drug Policies | UK News | Sky News


    And heres a letter from Eddie Sratton to Johnson :50: I like it

    NOW IS THE TIME TO GET INTO THE * ON THIS ISSUE!

    Peace :34:
     
  7. Rosario FC

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    Who gives a * tbh.
     
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    What a pathetic post tbh :87:

    It is quite clear that I give a * about the way I am criminalized for something that is far from criminal and proven to be less harmful than legal alternatives.

    If you don't care about then then why don't you * off out the thread and stop deflecting from its point.

    The government ignoring the facts about cannabis and then moving it from a class c to a class b drug instantly puts thousands more peoples liberty at risk. They wrongly turn harmless human beings into criminals and all this after they have the evidence yet decide to go against it and the advice of the experts.

    It is not right! Power is being abused and its affecting many peoples lives.
     
  9. Rosario FC

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    Welcome to reality !

    So what are you doing about it? (btw dont say something to do with the LCC because they have ZERO credability)

    Try focusing on a real issue, like poverty or unemployment.