Thread: Nutt sacked

Quote: Three more members of drugs advisory panel resign after sacking of David Nutt - Three members of the Government’s drugs advisory panel resigned today after Alan Johnson failed to persuade them to stay on after his sacking of David Nutt as the body’s chairman. A source close to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) named the three advisers as Simon Campbell, Ian Ragan and John Marsden. Two other members of the committee,...

biffvernon wrote: Les King resigned ealier today and now Marion Walker has gone. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8336884.stm This raises the point, how much can we believe the word of the government on anything in future? How much of what they say is a load of B S which goes against scientific advice?

Advisors don't make policy. Those who appoint advisors can receive MULTIPLE streams of information in order to make strategic decisions. A single advisor probably doesn't have access to the other data sources, and so should probably refrain from making public announcements.

I can see it now... some tabloid wrote: Home Secretary "Goes Postal"

Ludwig wrote: Given the REAL problems of the world, I can't believe what a fuss is being made of all this. It's more about the behaviour of the government on the whole, Ludwig. Would you prefer to have a government making policy decisions based on facts, statistics, and analysis, or one that bends to the will of the Daily Mail and corporate lobbyists?

contadino wrote: Ludwig wrote: Given the REAL problems of the world, I can't believe what a fuss is being made of all this. It's more about the behaviour of the government on the whole, Ludwig. Would you prefer to have a government making policy decisions based on facts, statistics, and analysis, or one that bends to the will of the Daily Mail and corporate lobbyists? Firstly, apologies for the rather peevish tone of my previous...

Since when was drug categorisation a science?

Isn't it great to see that some papers still have a little bit of intelligence and have the balls to say what they think.

Vortex wrote: Advisors don't make policy. Those who appoint advisors can receive MULTIPLE streams of information in order to make strategic decisions. A single advisor probably doesn't have access to the other data sources, and so should probably refrain from making public announcements. I think in this case the idea was that the categorization of drugs was to be in the hand of scientists. The policy and sentencing that was applied...

Horse riding may be relatively safe, but there are plenty of seriously dangerous 'sports' that (mostly) young men take part in, like (for example) off piste snow boarding, and they are actively encouraged and have documenataries made of them and thay are advertised as role models by the snow board manufacturers. Drinking and smoking may be more tolerated than celebrated these days but risk taking is built in to human nature, and how...