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British Government Fires Drug Advisor over Marijuana Controversy

Fri, Oct 30, 2009 6:20 pm


David Nutt, the top drug advisor for the British government, was fired Friday for his outspoken belief that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol.

 

Nutt, who was chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs – as well as a professor of neuropsychopharmacology – reportedly “embarrassed the British government, which toughened the penalties for possessing marijuana earlier this year.”

 

Nutt believes British Prime Minsister Gordon Brown has made “completely irrational statements” about the dangers of marijuana use. According to Nutt: “I’m not prepared to mislead the public about the harmfulness of drugs like cannabis and Ecstasy.”

 

Although Nutt’s stance on this issue is well documented, the government appears to have been angered by a recent lecture in which Nutt blasted former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for “distorting and devaluing” scientists’ work. Nutt went on to say that the “decision to tighten restrictions on marijuana had undermined public faith in government science.”

 

It’s possible (well, actually, likely) that the move is tied to the upcoming general election. After all, it’s hard to convince voters you’re on their side when your own drug advisor is going about telling them you’re full of shit distorting the facts.

 

Either way, Britons owe a debt of gratitude to David Nutt for having the courage to speak his mind at the expense of his job. ...google.com



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Bongs4evr

Nov 7 2009, 12:23 pm

Sorry to say that my Big brother works for NSA, and if they call it (Happy Smoke)Let us be HAPPY. But the truth is there is more money for big government to have it illegal than not. All they want is to get paid by all means necessary,and they say fuck the little guy and take his or her moneys

Bongs4evr

Nov 7 2009, 12:00 pm

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown should resign for corruption and not allowing the truth to be unleashed,we know the truth.All you assholes ,and you know who you are. Quit with the Oppression now you are showing your true communism and need to stay out of our private life. It's EVERYONES MORAL RESPONSABILITY TO BREAK UNJUST LAWS, LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY I DEMAND LIBERTY!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE ONE ANOTHER DON'T DENIE THE FACTS IT IS SAFFER THAN ASPRIN,TYLONOL,ALCOHOL,TABACCO,AND MOST DRINKING WATER., LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

south park

Nov 6 2009, 1:32 pm

anonymous is a fag

DavidNuttUK

Nov 6 2009, 5:05 am

Hey all, i appreciate the support.
Follow me on twitter.
www.twitter.com/DavidNuttUK

Make this country a democracy!

gstlab3

Nov 5 2009, 1:54 pm

TO:, "anonymous"

YOU ARE A VACCUOUS SORE ON THE ASS OF THIS FORUM!!!!!
WE ALL HOPE YOU MEET AN UNTIMELY DEMISE AND KARMA HAS ITS WAY WITH YOUR DUMB ASS!!!!
SO HERE'S A HEARTY., "FUCK YOU!!!!" and DIE SOON!!!
you piece of shit cock"a"roach!!!!!

FROM US FINE FOLKS DOWN AT "THE" "lab"

COMING UP LATER..,
THE FINE ARTS OF WORLD DOMINATION AND DEFENDING FREEDOM AND THE ECONOMY FROM THE ELITISTS AND THIER SOCIALIST AGENDA."

PEACE GROW YOUR OWN!!! FREE YOUR MIND AND FREE THE PLANET!!

Anonymous is a goat's anus

Nov 4 2009, 3:50 pm

Jewish people are the best! fuck you anonymous! FUCK YOU!

anonymous

Nov 4 2009, 1:46 am

the people of countries like France and Italy your governments are CIA/Jewish loyalists forever, they do not earn money through the economy, see Italy's military paid by corruption, the CIA/Jewish. Whatever you read in hightimes take this seriously and expecially in europe with all the uneducated pro lesbian governments that depend on sexual favours by weak and insecure males. Even where I live in another coubtry the Italians and French are contaminating foods and liquids. Its time for America to stand up to their enemies, America rules not the E.U. Who threatens the American military and gets away with it, France and Italy, and America takes it right in the ass like a lesbian. Mr Democracy is pissed.

HU210

Nov 3 2009, 9:33 pm

KILL THE MESSENGER!!!

Well if fear is all ya got.

openeyes

Nov 3 2009, 1:14 pm

Big Pharmaceutical Cartels and drug busts paying for very juicy overtime pay and paying politicians to lie to us,
More people need to know and time for a peaceful revolution
neweartharmy.com

annonymous is a big pussy

Nov 3 2009, 1:20 am

...toolbag says "what?"

anonymous

Nov 3 2009, 1:07 am

The CIA/Jewish implanted transmitters in one government leader that cost the American government 1 trillion dollars. Why after 50 years did the CIA disclose all their secrets? Will politics change? Will their be more 9/11 aftermaths with retaliation. The CIA have taken a different approch, they are fueled by a unitary executive dictatorship funded by monetary funds from foreign countries to fuel their economy during a time of crisis with economic and political problems assosciated with corruption and the system, remember executive, that means all workers who work for an employer and the employer from small business to large corporations. The governments are even stealing from monetary funds that are meant to stimulate the economies because of their actions that deplete economies for instanst, the economic damage oxided radiations cause in a society. The rich who have no education are to blame, well they want to smell someones vagina, well lets spary depleted uranium in their environment and smell it, but how about their health factors? they don't care their rich...their followers arew like street gangs they do not care about loosing their lives, they druged up on cocaine (altered) and are suicidal. Lesbians do not like the male, they undermine and munipulate them with sex, and they fold like a soup sandwich for smelly vaginas, weak and insecure males again. The war is against the government/s and their actions. No one has to agree in a democracy, its your choice, no one can forse you in a democracy, tell the judge you were forced and you coporated, that smental illness,. your all sick. Socirty needs a business world, remember the old America, Ppresident Linchon, civilities, freedoms and rights, constitutions, he'd be piss off today at Congress, what happened to America and democracy, its too bad but....

Bobcat

Nov 2 2009, 11:26 pm

Legalize it!!
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some KNOWN person

Nov 2 2009, 5:49 pm

I agree with dank below. Time is changing. I see it on tv for one thing.
PBS had a show out called BOTANY of DESIRE and it didn't demonize pot, although some lady said thaT OUR THC RECEPTORS ARE NOT FOR SMOKING POT". When did she become God?

Other than that little incident, it was nice to see the show. It was also intersting to learn that indosites however you spell the word which means organisms that live inside the leaf and share a symbiotic rela tionship with the plant that the organism gives off medicine like properties when extracted and grown in a petri dish.

I wonder if a person can use this method to see if the ptri dish method could be used to grow organisms that makes us feel good?

hmm

anonymous

Nov 2 2009, 3:57 pm

you got to like english politics

rizlapipeanywayulike

Nov 2 2009, 2:57 am

i find it all a big joke. these politicians make me laugh. i bet he was really holding himself back from fully stating that weed is fine and mostly safe, and that it should be legalized. the hypocrisy of it all! the pros FAAAARRRR outweigh the cons, everyone knows it. whatever anyones personal feelings are, logistically it makes much sense to legalize it.

every super market, corner shop and petrol garage in england sells king size slims.

everybody does it. not literally but generally speaking.

Big pharm

Nov 1 2009, 2:35 pm

Big pharmacy spent 30 million in election funds in the 2008 elections,given equally,too both parties,because they don't support political ideology. And I am willing too bet that the 8 month delay in a written medical marijuana memo,(a whole 3 pages long)from the Justice department was from influence bought with their money.
I am going on record as predicting that big PHARM,will more than double the 2008 election fund trying too keep marijuana
as a schedule 1 drug.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=H04
The above is where we can keep track of their donations too your legislators.
My 2 senators both receive hundreds of thousands from the medical industry and both refuse to support even medical marijuana.
Ron Paul and Barney Frank,both supporters of marijuana reform,receive $0 from the meds lobby.
Go to the site and check your reps and senators out for there donations,and compare too their stance,not what they
say,but,how they will vote if they want to receive the money next election year.

Science

Nov 1 2009, 2:19 pm

It has no place in the budget talks for the ONDCP,nor apparently in the British government. It surely has no place in congress or the House,because they have paid for several studies by doctors and scientists,all which say marijuana is not as dangerous a drug as we have it listed and that it needs too be studied as a possible therapeutic medicine, and now though thirteen states have doctors that are using marijuana as a medicine,they still have it schedule 1.

dankbot

Nov 1 2009, 1:17 pm

The world is about to see a change. Its not a matter of what and where, its when. Cali is taking the step it seems...and more are going to. Personally IMO I think it will happen sooner rather then later. And it will affect alot of people. Some good some bad...for those of us on Hightimes...more good then bad.

Red Bud

Nov 1 2009, 6:18 am

Something similar to this happened in the United States. Bush had appointed a new attorney general. She began to advocate for the removal of penalties for possession. She was quickly scrapped. I feel for Prof. Nutt, he was doing his job the best way he knew how. He looked at the science and made his determination upon that. Politicians will only go to science when it benefits their cause, when it doesn't, they will drag the scientists name through the mud. It's sad really because it keeps the public misinformed and maintains the status quo.
Here's what's really happening. The police make a lot of money off of drug busts. Busts pay for new equipment and overtime for the department. The police officers union pays huge sums of money to politicians who will keep the laws as they are. It's not about making society safer for the police and politicians, it's all about the money.

Real World Wisdom

Nov 1 2009, 5:25 am

Unfortunetly , thats what happens when you take on the guys in charge . Happens everyday .. such are the ways of the world ...............

Maryjane Rottencrotch

Nov 1 2009, 4:42 am

Ya see that's been the whole problem to begin with, the governments have lied about marijuana. We praise "David Nutt", for his out spokeness, and truthfulness. If the governments really wanted to cripple the terrorist, legalizing marijuana would be the first thing they should do. Without the marijuana trade to cash in on, the terrorist effort would come to an crashing end. "The Nutt", has the right ideal, the problem is the governments aren't listening. The governments don't seem the really care, they just offer lip service & lies.

Marijuana is 100% safer the alcohol, and that's a FACT!
At the expense of his job, "David Nutt" came forward and enformed the people with the TRUTH. We thank him and will support him in his efforsts to find a new JOB.

What we need is more poeple like "David Nutt", people who are willing to tell the truth, no matter what. This shows that he cares about people who are suffering and has the interest of the people at heart.

anonymous

Nov 1 2009, 1:08 am

anarchy against the maggots
fuck all government agancies
its holy war in democracy

CHEWBONGOTONGO

Nov 1 2009, 12:39 am

Limey bastards.

concerned toker

Oct 31 2009, 7:17 pm

Fuck that shit. How do these lies live on past the 21st century?

the truth

Oct 31 2009, 5:58 pm

gets people fired?

sincere

Oct 31 2009, 3:41 pm

We don' need the Government, the Government needs us.
passive resistance.

tangomango

Oct 31 2009, 3:35 pm

I believe the professor more and he is right that what the government says about cannabis is irrational, putting it nicely, It is very clear now that the majority of people think cannabis should be legal and a small percentage with power money and guns think it's more profitable to call it evil weed, thank you professor David Nutt it was very brave of him to admit the truth and loose his job with big brother,
what do we have to do to get our freedom back? ask nicely
if we ever decide to stop going along with the government and leave the cities for a simple life refusing to continue going along with the tyrannical system, then we are fortunate that cannabis can provide us with fiber to make clothes high protein powder from the seed, oil to use in many ways, we don't need the government get this the government needs us.

sucker2009

Oct 31 2009, 2:51 pm

the lies from government bureaucrats are outrageous and appalling at best we have to wake up to the number of other lies they are telling us, the question is are they really fit to be our rulers? or have they lost sight completely of reality and we must force a balance check out NewEarthArmy.com
passive resistance works don't listen to the people who advocate violence that will just give the government a reason to send the private mercenaries they have been hiring, to slaughter a bunch of us, taxation without representation sucks and we don't like the oil wars, bring our troops home to their children and families.

gstlab3

Oct 31 2009, 2:10 pm

DISSENT IS TREASON!!!!!!!!!
FREEDOM OF SPEACH IS NEARLY DEAD!!!!!
THE TRUTH MOST CERTAINLY IS!!!!!!!!!
ARM YOURSELVES TO THE HILT!!!!!
PREPARE FOR THE FREEDOM FIGHT OF YOUR GENERATION!!!!!!
THE ELITISTS ARE GOING BROKE AND CANNOT MAINTAIN THE PONZI SCHEME FOR MUCH LONGER.,THE LOANSHARKS ARE HUNGRY FOR THEIR DUE AND AND IT'S LATE!!!!
THE MANNIPULATION OF THE FUEL MARKETS IS STARTING AGAIN IN EARNEST!!! PREPARE!!
PREPARE FOR CIVIL UNREST AND MARSHALL LAW!!
GATHER YOUR SEEDS AND YOUR NESESSARIES FOR THE LONG HARD WINTER AND MAKE SURE YOU STOCK UP ON WATER SANITIZERS AND STOCKPILE FUEL FOR YOURSELF AND FAMILY.
DO NOT TRUST THESE GOVERNMENT ELITISTS BECAUSE THE GAME IS UP AND THE HOUSE OF CARDS IS FALLING.
THE NEXT TERRORIST CAMPAIGHN OR A NEW WAR IS BREWING AND IT LOOKS BAD FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE WORLDS FUEL MARKETS DEPEND ON A STABLE MIDDLE EAST.
TO THAT END THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BE SUBJUGATED.

Piax

Oct 31 2009, 12:44 pm

Wow. I thought the U.S had problems But dang. They are in complete denial. Thats Rediclous. Feel Sry for the guy losing his job. He should come to the U.S and fight here lol. After all the other countries followed the U.S on making it illegal maybe they will follow the U.S again in realizing the truth.

Piax
Spread the truth.

morning dew

Oct 31 2009, 7:58 am

i feel the same way, how many people get their stomach pumped from LSD

MuddUK

Oct 31 2009, 6:36 am

Its utterly ridiculous. I read the story in the paper a few days ago that this Prof had said cannabis (along with ecstacy and LSD) were LESS HARMFUL than booze. I instantly thought, big surprise there, all teetotal drug users know that, good on him for pointing it out. The next day he's fired. I hate to say it but our politicians are bloody Luddites. We need to give more power to the Technocrats!

anonymous

Oct 31 2009, 6:35 am

EUROPE YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS
LEAVE THE WEST
BEEF UP YOUR MILITARIES
EUROPE OWES 10 BILLION IN COMPINSATION
EXPECT THE WORST
ANOTHER 9/11 AFTERMATH
RADIATIONS IS AGAINST THE RULES
UNDECLARED IF I WERE PRESIDENT

mba1189

Oct 31 2009, 3:23 am

oops nevermind found it. im way too high for 323 am

mba1189

Oct 31 2009, 3:21 am

um, can someone explain why I cannot find the source for this article? clicking mike hughes only returns me to the headline news page. is hightimes trying to pull the wool over my eyes or what? you're also very clever if you made it up though!

gstlab3

Oct 30 2009, 10:05 pm

TELL A LIE LONG ENOUGH AND CONVINCINGLEY OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND PEOPLE WILL FORGET IT'S A LIE AND WILL START TO BELIEVE IT.,
NOW WHO SAID SOMETHING LIKE THIS??
OH I REMEMBER NOW!!! IT WAS HITLERS PROPAGANDA MINISTER!!!!

Needed here

Oct 30 2009, 7:18 pm

We need some Judges refusing to sit at drug trials,and DEA quitting because they know it is all based on bullshirt.
Some true scientists and doctors at NIDA and the other government run witch hunting anti-marijuana organizations need to stand up and admit that after the last 30 years of testing,they still have not found any ill effects for marijuana.

hey

Oct 30 2009, 7:04 pm

tell this guy we need him fighting the good fight in california well take as many as we can get...I want it to not only be legalized but I want it to be an outright no doubt about it 60-40 votes or better

Freedumb Fighter

Oct 30 2009, 6:47 pm

Thank you David Nutt, you sir are a true civil servant...

DB

Oct 30 2009, 6:42 pm

Two words: Schafer commission.

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