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[poliphilo]

Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary (the most recent one- nobody lasts long in the job) just sacked Professor David Nutt from his headship of ACMD- The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs- for publicly stating that LSD and Ecstasy are less dangerous than booze and fags.  Hired to be a propagandist, Professor Nutt has consistently acted as a scientist- and man of conscience.  Earlier this year he  memorably aquainted us with the statistic that ecstasy kills fewer people than horseriding. 

My Johnson's government is committed to the unwinnable, economy-busting and world-wide-misery-causing "war on drugs"- and cannot allow anyone on its team to compromise that policy by giving the public the facts.

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[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Didn't you know, we're supposed to accept the science blindly when it comes to GM foods and reject it equally blindly when it comes to drugs? Careful now, or you'll be packed off to the Correction Centre.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's dispiriting how little weight the truth carries when it comes to government policy.