Professor David Nutt, the government's chief drug adviser, has been sacked a day after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. Nutt incurred the wrath of the government when he claimed in a paper that alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis. ... "The home secretary's action is a bad day for science and a bad day for the cause of evidence-informed policy making."read more...
The UK has been getting ever more crazy. How can you justify sacking your adviser for doing his job?
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How can they say that alcohol is worst then drugs. Of course I if are almost in alcohol coma and another one took a ecstasy pill, the one in coma is more dangerous, but you can compare like that.
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