UK’s Drugs Czar Fired For Marijuana Truths

UK’s Drugs Czar Fired For Marijuana Truths

Gordon Brown defends Nutt sacking DWR
Mr Brown backed Mr Johnson’s decision and defended the right of elected ministers to reject the advice of scientists at times. He said: “On climate change, or health, for example, we take the best scientific advise possible. But in an area like drugs we have to look at it in the round.

Drug Panel Revolt Over Fired Chief Professor David Nutt
UK: MapINC Recent Media Headlines

Johnson Under Fire As More Advisers Threaten to Resign

THERE'S NO POINT IN ADVISERS
IF THEY CAN SAY ONLY WHAT MINISTERS WANT

REMOVAL RISKS DISCOURAGING EXPERTS FROM GIVING OPINION

Treading Fine Line Between Providing Advice - or Policy

Cannabis Confusion Is Labour's Fault, Not Professor Nutt's

Scientists Quit Government Drugs Body Over David Nutt Sacking

Scientists Rebel At Drug Czar Sacking



Drugs Policy: Shooting Up the Messenger

Like Drunks In Denial, MPs Blow Off Truth About Drugs

Removal Risks Discouraging Experts From Giving Opinion



Cannabis Risks Must Not Be Underplayed

Jacob responds to Jon Ferry on David Nutt firings
Jacob Hunter
Mr Ferry… why do you not come out strongly when the RCMP (Or, as it was last week, the OPP) issue press releases with unsubstantiated and alarmist statements about the danger of marijuana cultivation facilities?

More Resignations Amid Drugs Row Nov 1, 2009

 

It's a disgrace. I can't stress enough how pathetic it is.
While I agree that there are social as well as scientific implications to be taken into consideration, they all seem to be positive ones.

Alan Johnson is showing himself to be even more incompetent than Jacqui Smith. Labour doesn't have very many friends at the moment and causing it's advisory council to behind dismantling itself really isn't a smart with an election coming up very soon.

Maybe it's gordon brown and not labour as a whole, as I don't remember any public vote to put him in power. We'll have to see if they get rid or not for the next one.

 

Man, that sucks. I feel for you guys overseas.

 

ARE YOUR DRUGS LAWS WORKING? ASK A SCIENTIST
It's pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor David Nutt's sacking as the government's chief drugs adviser, that everyone outside politics now recognises the importance of scientific evidence in devising laws. But a strange reasoning twitch has appeared, in the arguments of politicians and rightwing commentators. Science can tell us about the molecules, they say, about their effect on the body and the risks. But policy is separate: a matter for judgment calls on social and ethical issues. Only politicians, they say, can determine the correct way to send out a clear message to the public. It is not a matter for science.

This is wrong. Alongside research into the risks of drugs, lots of work has also been done on the deterrent impact of different laws, classifications and levels of enforcement. As every piece of research has its own imperfections ( and nobody has yet conducted a randomised controlled trial on drugs policy ) you can make your own mind up about whether you find the results compelling.

Johnson Tries To Calm Fury Over Nutt Exit Nov 10 2009
UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson will try to calm scientists' anger over the sacking of Professor David Nutt at crisis talks with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

Three more drug advisers quit over sacking of Professor David Nutt
Nov 11 2009
Three more scientists have resigned from the Government's drugs advisory body in the wake of the sacking of its chairman, Professor David Nutt.

Marijuana: Less Dangerous Than Aspirin
Nov 10 2009
Andrew Sullivan: The media irrationally focuses on what isn't the biggest problem by any objective assessment.


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Virtues' of Ganja

 

English Ganja is already a class#2, they went to a class#3. Then Walter's horshit about superpot and bogus schizophrenia garbage science hurled the fear at them enough to re-class it back. But hell, they're still ahead of Unk Scam. This latest AMA shell game ain't no different than the states rights Biraq still Obombin pushed. This plant has been "going" to be legalized so many times. Each time only a diversion and stall tactic. I think we owe "overseas" a fat ass apology for getting them involved in this scam and the devastation Americans have caused the world by permitting this deceit to continue for 72 years. Fascism, keeping competition out of the free trade market, Prison slave labor or plea bargain rehabs and pisstaste profits. 95% avoiding a jury trial without a medical defense allowed, 404 gage rule to not confuse the jury. Mandatory minimum if they loose and 3 strikes its for life. It ain't over till the sick people sing.



Marijuana: the law vs. 12 million people
Life magazine 25-35 Oct 31, 1969

Should it be legalized? Soon we will know.

AMA Ends 72-Year Policy: Ganja is Medicine

Without the internet the censored programmed media would have kept playing the game. Now the information about Nixon and the true dangers and medicinal benefits posted on hundreds of sights make them look just silly as hell.

It was just a matter of time...

I think 40 years of the lying conniving weasels terrorizing sick Americans needs Justice! Off with their heads! Public flogging? Something.

The AMA Medical Industrial Complex has permitted millions of Americans to suffer needless anxiety and physical harm from drug thugs for 40 years. They sat by while their Insurance and Pharmaceutical masters did the bidding for $Trillions in profits. Not once did they ever disclose the thousands of years of safe use. Now they say nothing, not a damn word different. They have no intention of allowing common working US peasants to have something for nothing, not something they can sell. Not Buyers Clubs or Homegrown. They haven't changed the status of smoked pot. Barthwell and Bayer are lurking in the Shadows ready to pounce on a lowering to schedule#2, requiring a triplicate and still outlawing vegetable matter ignitions. They outlaw research but still manage to obtain a patent for cannabinoids? Fool me once shame on you, try fooling me a thousand times and I come to expect it. I hope I'm wrong, but with their track record, I don't think so.

Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs

Health regulators have sent an uncompromising message that smoked cannabis will not be approved for use by MS sufferers, leaving the way open for GW's under-the-tongue spray version of the drug.

Former Deputy Drug Czar Andrea Barthwell is the new spokesperson for getting GW Pharmaceuticals' Sativex approved for use in the United States. Bayer and GW Pharmaceuticals announce marketing agreement on pioneering new cannabis-based treatment.

"The people who are advancing marijuana as a medicine are perpetuating a cruel hoax that exploits our compassion for the sick. They are using patients' pain and suffering in an attempt to change America's drug control policy. Marijuana is a crude plant product that most definitely is not a medicine."
~ Andrea Barthwell
Former Deputy Drug Czar (Bush II)



"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."
~Daryl Gates - Former LAPD Chief

Gates was the founder of DARE and father of SWAT.
This is what they're teaching American kids.
Is it any wonder they grow up addicted to killing?
Following blindly, to serve the corporation.
No drug as bad as a weak cowardly killer.
Censorship is a sign they have nothing to say.
Just a minority with guns and creepy ideology.

There's a Monopoly on Marijuana Growing & Research
Big Money Pulling the Strings of the Drug War

The Multiple Consequences of Operation Intercept

Medical Establishment Cares More About Profits Than People

The Ganjawar Fraud

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1