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Highly Allochthonous:  Advice and Advocacy

DrugMonkey:  UK Home Office Restores Drug Science to the Back of the Bus

Neuroskeptic:  The Politics of Psychopharmacology

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RT @ajcann David Nutt on his sacking http://bit.ly/ooTKb 18 days ago

David Nutt explains what his dismissal means for drugs policy and scientific advice in Britain http://bit.ly/3CbofA 18 days ago

RT @UnlikelyWorlds: Professor Nutt - 'It just seems to me a nail in the coffin of evidence-based government.' http://bit.ly/10QYCx 18 days ago

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Advice and Advocacy
Highly Allochthonous — ... It is this lack of transparency that worries me; and a scientist who actually faces the paradox of being consulted by the government to provide a veneer of scientific authority, whilst having their actual opinion on the issue at hand ignored, is perhaps justified in getting a little annoyed . ...

UK Home Office Restores Drug Science to the Back of the Bus
DrugMonkey — ... , once again continuing his crusade to get the government to reconsider the harm classification of cannabis, MDMA and the classic hallucinogens. Apparently the UK Home Office thought enough was enough, as detailed in an interview with Nutt published in ...

The Politics of Psychopharmacology
Neuroskeptic — ... sacking of a government adviser on drugs shows Britain's politicians can't cope with intelligent debate... the position of the Labour government and of the leading opposition party, the Conservatives, which vigorously supported Nutt's sacking, has no merit at all. It deals a significant blow both to the chances of an informed and reasoned debate over illegal drugs, and to the parties' own scientific credibility."They also have an interview with the man himself. ...