British drug laws are "arbitrary" and policy makers work in a "black hole where thought disappears and rhetoric emerges," the UK's former chief drugs adviser has said, amid a row over a government study which found no evidence that a tough approach reduces use.
Last week the British crime prevention minister, Norman Baker, resigned from the Home Office after an internal dispute over a report the department had commissioned on the impact of drug laws. Explaining the move, he said there was little support for "rational evidence-based policy" within the government.
Responding to Baker's resignation in an interview with VICE News, leading neuroscientist David Nutt said the ruling Conservative Party was only concerned with presenting the image that it was tough on drug use.
"The Tories do not want to discuss drugs," he said.
"All they want is the mantra 'We are winning the war on drugs'. That's all they are interested in.
"They do not want a discussion on drugs for a number of reasons. One is they'd lose the argument. The second is that senior Tories have got rather spectacularly interesting drug histories." Article continues....
https://news.vice.com/article/uk-do...rmer-chief-adviser?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
Vice News article on the total, lying, ineffective right wing bullshit of Britain's version of the "War on Drugs".
Last week the British crime prevention minister, Norman Baker, resigned from the Home Office after an internal dispute over a report the department had commissioned on the impact of drug laws. Explaining the move, he said there was little support for "rational evidence-based policy" within the government.
Responding to Baker's resignation in an interview with VICE News, leading neuroscientist David Nutt said the ruling Conservative Party was only concerned with presenting the image that it was tough on drug use.
"The Tories do not want to discuss drugs," he said.
"All they want is the mantra 'We are winning the war on drugs'. That's all they are interested in.
"They do not want a discussion on drugs for a number of reasons. One is they'd lose the argument. The second is that senior Tories have got rather spectacularly interesting drug histories." Article continues....
https://news.vice.com/article/uk-do...rmer-chief-adviser?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
Vice News article on the total, lying, ineffective right wing bullshit of Britain's version of the "War on Drugs".
