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Hmm lijkt wel of ze in GB ook al last hebben van Het Ab Klink-effect...de lul die paddo's verbood terwijl experts meenden dat het gebruiken en de verkoop alleen beter gereguleerd zouden moeten worden....
Drugs tsar sacked for claiming Ecstasy, cannabis and LSD are less harmful than alcohols says more advisors will quit
By James Slack
Controversy: Professor David Nutt
Controversy: Professor David Nutt criticised the decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug
The UK's chief drugs tsar sacked over his controversial views today launched an extraordinary attack on Gordon Brown and warned the Government's whole advisory board could quit.
Professor David Nutt, fired last night for claiming cannabis, Ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, turned both barrels on the Prime Minister.
He declared that the Government had gone too far by defying his and other experts' advise on cannabis and Ecstasy and claimed ministers were acting before they had even consulted their own advisors.
'He [Gordon Brown] is the first Prime Minister, this is the first Government, that has ever in the history of the Misuse of Drugs Act gone against the advice of its scientific panel,' he said.
'And then it did it again with ecstasy and I have to say it's not about
over-stepping the line, it's about the Government over-stepping the line.
'They are making scientific decisions before they've even consulted with their experts.'
He added: 'I know that my committee was very very upset by the attitude the Prime Minister took over cannabis. We actually formally wrote to him to complain about it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them stepped down. Maybe all of them will.'
Home Secretary Alan Johnson sensationally fired Professor Nutt last night after deciding he had 'no confidence' in him.
The move followed a series of controversial remarks about the effect of drugs, which included a claim that Ecstasy was no more dangerous than 'riding a horse'.
It is the first time a chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has been fired in its 38-year history.
Home Office officials said Mr Johnson had been 'surprised and disappointed' by Professor Nutt's comments.
Mr Johnson said they 'damaged efforts to give the public clear messages about the dangers of drugs'.
Professor Nutt has long courted controversy. Under his stewardship, the ACMD resisted the reclassification of cannabis and also called for Ecstasy to be downgraded to a Class B substance. On both occasions he was overruled by ministers.
But it was a paper he authored for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College, London, that proved the final straw.
He accused former home secretary Jacqui Smith, who reclassified cannabis, of 'distorting and devaluing' scientific research, and said smoking the drug created a 'relatively small risk' of psychotic illness.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224162/Drug-tsar-claimed-ecstasy-LSD-harmful-alcohol-sacked.html?ITO=1490
By James Slack
Controversy: Professor David Nutt
Controversy: Professor David Nutt criticised the decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug
The UK's chief drugs tsar sacked over his controversial views today launched an extraordinary attack on Gordon Brown and warned the Government's whole advisory board could quit.
Professor David Nutt, fired last night for claiming cannabis, Ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, turned both barrels on the Prime Minister.
He declared that the Government had gone too far by defying his and other experts' advise on cannabis and Ecstasy and claimed ministers were acting before they had even consulted their own advisors.
'He [Gordon Brown] is the first Prime Minister, this is the first Government, that has ever in the history of the Misuse of Drugs Act gone against the advice of its scientific panel,' he said.
'And then it did it again with ecstasy and I have to say it's not about
over-stepping the line, it's about the Government over-stepping the line.'They are making scientific decisions before they've even consulted with their experts.'
He added: 'I know that my committee was very very upset by the attitude the Prime Minister took over cannabis. We actually formally wrote to him to complain about it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them stepped down. Maybe all of them will.'
Home Secretary Alan Johnson sensationally fired Professor Nutt last night after deciding he had 'no confidence' in him.
The move followed a series of controversial remarks about the effect of drugs, which included a claim that Ecstasy was no more dangerous than 'riding a horse'.
It is the first time a chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has been fired in its 38-year history.
Home Office officials said Mr Johnson had been 'surprised and disappointed' by Professor Nutt's comments.
Mr Johnson said they 'damaged efforts to give the public clear messages about the dangers of drugs'.
Professor Nutt has long courted controversy. Under his stewardship, the ACMD resisted the reclassification of cannabis and also called for Ecstasy to be downgraded to a Class B substance. On both occasions he was overruled by ministers.
But it was a paper he authored for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College, London, that proved the final straw.
He accused former home secretary Jacqui Smith, who reclassified cannabis, of 'distorting and devaluing' scientific research, and said smoking the drug created a 'relatively small risk' of psychotic illness.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224162/Drug-tsar-claimed-ecstasy-LSD-harmful-alcohol-sacked.html?ITO=1490
Hmm lijkt wel of ze in GB ook al last hebben van Het Ab Klink-effect...de lul die paddo's verbood terwijl experts meenden dat het gebruiken en de verkoop alleen beter gereguleerd zouden moeten worden....
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