Another threescientific members of the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs have quit after meeting with Alan Johnson and, apparently, deciding that the Home Secretary is full of shit. This puts the council in a rather untenable position as it's now missing a rather significant array of scientific expertise. Not only that, but considering the abysmal way this row has been handled by the ...
... were acceptable. As the Guardian reports: Three more government drug advisers resign over the home secretary’s sacking of Professor David Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). The three all resigned after a face-to-face meeting with Alan Johnson, the home secretary, which was called in an attempt to heal the rift between the scientists and the government over ...
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...or listen toscientificadvice. The ACMD published its report on Cannabis in...was an obvious disagreement, but the ACMD had performed its role impeccably and...of public policy. However, unlike the ACMD, the Government is required to take... holding his position on the ACMD. Professor Nutt presented his professionalview... and professional opinions of the ACMD, and where there is disagreement,...
... gave last week was advertised as being given by an Imperial College Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, not by the chair of the ACMD. According to Nutt himself, if the planned discussions between what's left of the ACMD and the Home Office fail, he's going to start his own advisory panel, only this one will have hookers ...
"The purpose of the review of the ACMD, ordered in secret last month, is to "satisfy ministers" that the body is "discharging the functions" that it was set up to deliver and that it still represents value for money to the public. It will also ensure that the drug experts are operating in line with their terms of reference." So, They wanted an investigation a month ago to check rumours out that...
... policy’ Legalise Cannabis Alliance Press Release November 2 2009 No Embargo Following the sacking of Professor Nutt and resignation of members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) has challenged the way in which the Government formulates its policy on drugs Professor Nutt was sacked by the Home Secretary last Friday, following the ...
...does) for the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to become less advisory and more powerful, so that they can classify drugs based on evidence instead of headlines. It looks like several of the ACMD are going to resign. I hope they do it gradually, to keep this bubbling in the media. Also really useful would be to get some kind of petition or statement circulating around the academic/medical...
Good news today- two members of the ACMDresigned in disgust at the way that Professor David Nutt has been treated by the Home Office, threatening the continued ... evidence (of which there will undoubtedly be many). It's extremely encouraging to see that the other scientists in the ACMD (and outside of it) are unwilling to take this level of interference from the Home Office. With any luck, this ...
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 ...
