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British Government Faces Revolt from Drug Council

Mon, Nov 02, 2009 6:17 pm


The British government is facing the prospect of “mass resignations” from the remaining members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in response to the firing of council chair David Nutt.

 

It is believed Nutt was fired for his outspoken belief that marijuana is a safer substance than alcohol – a belief that goes against government policy.

 

Two council members have already walked and more resignations could be coming.

 

According to Home Secretary Alan Johnson, “Professor Nutt was not sacked for his views, which I respect but disagree with … He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.”

 

However, some, including Dr Les King, a former head of drug intelligence at the Forensic Science Service, felt the government had “denied Nutt his ‘freedom of expression.’”

 

The council now sits on the brink of collapse, but it seems just as well if the government is going to systematically ignore their recommendations (and fire members whose views – and research – don’t comport with policy the government wants to push).

 

Interestingly, Secretary Johnson made a point of noting that the decision to fire Nutt was his alone and that the Prime Minister Gordon Brown was not consulted. Whether this is a case of Johnson attempting to shield Brown from the uproar remains to be seen. More on this story as it develops. …guardian.co.uk  



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shame the gov

Nov 7 2009, 7:51 am

gstlab3 nice article. i agree 100% but i dont think u should put down people on medicade. yeah its a drain on tax money but alot of people have realy good jobs and work realy hard but still either cant afford helth care or dont have it offered at there job and cant afford to get it on there own. i would love health care for my family but it would cost over one fourth of my pay and that is crazy. i feel just like you about wellfare and medicade and i will never use either for myself but my child needs helthcare and in this economy i can only think of my child and do what i can for my child. not trying to put you down ive read and agreed with every comment you have written on here in the last year keep up the good work. we could use more people who think like you in this world

mommy

Nov 6 2009, 11:41 pm

my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and there like its better than urs thats right its better then yours i could teach you but i haft ta charge

gstlab3

Nov 6 2009, 11:23 am

TO: "THE RETCHED SCUM OF THE EARTH WHO SPREAD HATE AND MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD."

YOU ARE IN MY SIGHTS AND WILL BE EXTERMINATED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.,
YOU CAME TO OUR COUNTRY UNDER THE GUISE OF SEEKING FREEDOM AND STILL IN THE LAND OF THE MOST FREE YOU SPREAD YOUR BACKWARD HATE FILLED RELIGIONS UPON US AND EVEN YOUR OWN WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE SUBJECTED TO THIS EVIL OF SUBSERVIANCE AND SECOND CLASS CITIZENSHIP!!!
AND TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FORSAKEN GOD AND HIS LAWS YOU SHOULD REPENT AND PRAY FOR YOUR SOULS AND THE ONES YOU HAVE LED ASTRAY!!!
THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITIAN ARE UNDER ATTACK FROM WITHIN AND THE COMMUNISTS AND THE DISGUISED FREEDOM LOVERS WE CALL SPECIAL INTEREST AND MINORITY REPRESENTATIVES PREACH AND TEACH REVERSE DISCRIMINATION AS A WAY OF LIFE TO THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE THUS SEPARATING AND DIVIDING OUR CULTURES FURTHER AND THEY KEEP THE BALL ROLLING ALONG UNTILL THE SOCIALIST STATE IS FORMED AND THE WEALTHY AND POWERFULL ARE BLACKMAILED INTO FEEDING THE USELESS MASSES WHO THINK THEY DESERVE AND ARE ENTITLED TO A CERTAIN STANDARD OF LIVING!!!!!
WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO REWARD PEOPLE WITH SUBSTANCE AS A WAY OF LIFE FOR BEING LAZY AND CRIMINAL AND FOR GODS SAKE WHY DO WE HELP THESE KIDS WHO DO NOT EVEN TRY TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL?!
THEIR CLAIM TO FREEDOM IS THE BATTLE CRY OF
"I WAS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE I'M NOT WHITE."
OR I WAS BORN POOR AND GREW UP IN THE HOOD" WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS.,etc.
GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE!!!!!
WITHOUT HARD WORK AND DOING THE RIGHT THINGS I'M SORRY YOU DO'NT GET SHIT IN MY BOOK IT'S NOBODIES FAULT BUT THEIR OWN FOR ENDING UP SO UTTERLY FUCKED AND POOR AND OUT ON THE STREETS.
VERY FEW PEOPLE REALLY NEED THE PUBLIC SYSTEM TO SUSTAIN THEM FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE UP UNTIL THIS VERY DAY THESE WELLFARE BABY MAKING MACHINES KEEP ON SUCKING THE WELLFARE TIT UNTIL ALL THEIR CHILDREN ARE GROWN AND IF YOU DO THE MATH A WOMAN IS CAPABLE OF HAVING CHILKDREN UNTILL SHE'S HOW OLD? 45/50? AND THEN THE SYSTEM PAYS FOR THAT KID AND HER A PLACE TO LIVE UNTILL THE KID IS EIGHTEEN OR IN SCHOOL.,HAHAHA THE LAST ONE RARELY HAPPENS!!
WE HAVE A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND OF THOSE AND THEN WE HAVE A MILLION OR MORE ON FOOD STAMPS AND MEDICADE AND CARE!!!!
SURE INVITE MORE ILLEGALLS AND FORIEGHN BORN ISLAMICS AND LETS HAVE SOME MORE RECENT CONVERTS TO ISLAM ENTER OUR MILLITARY RANKS WHILE WE ARE TALKING GAME!!!!
THIS SHIT IS REAL AND IT'S NO FUCKING JOKE.
OUR OWN POLITICIANS AND GOVERNMET OFFICIALS ARE INSANE NOT TO SEE THESE THINGS AND PUT AN END TO THEM BUT THEY LET IT ALL HANG OUT THERE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE AND WE DO NOTHING?
WE HAVE PEOPLE IN OUR PRISONS FOR NON VIOLENT MARIJUANA OFFENCES I WOULD TRUST BEFORE I WOULD TRUST ONE OF THESE GANGBANGERS OR A CONVERT TO ISLAM OR A FORIEGHN BORN IN OUR MILLITARY RANKS TODAY!!
FUCK THE FEDS IN THE U.S.A. AND THE LIBERALS IN CHARGE OF THE GREAT BRITTIAN!!!!!!!
FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE HAD BETTER STAND UP TO THESE LIBERAL BRAIN WASHED INSANE PEOPLE AND PRAY FOR THE STRENGTH TO DO SO BECAUSE THEY ARE ENTENCHED AND THEY WORSHIP THE ALLMIGHTY DOLLAR AND HAVE CONTROLL OVER EVERY MEDIA OUTLET!!
WE ARE GREATLY OUTNUMBERED!!
BUT THE TRUTH IS OUT HERE AND I FOR ONE AM SPREADING MY MIND ABOUT IT ALL!
STAND UP!!! AND GROW YOUR OWN AND FREE YOUR MIND AND FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!!!
GO AHEAD AND HAVE FUN TODAY AND TELL A LIBERAL THAT GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOU AND ME.
AND WE DO'NT HAVE A VOTE IN THE MATTER EITHER.
THAT WILL FREAK THEM OUT.

DavidNuttUK

Nov 6 2009, 5:09 am

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

Make this country a democracy!

gstlab3

Nov 3 2009, 8:19 pm

I SMELL A RAT!!! A BIG RAT!!! A LYING THIEVING RAT!!!!!
MARIJUANA IS SAFER THAN TYLENAL AND ASPRIN!!!!
MARIJUANA HAS "SAFE" AND "POSITIVE" AFTER AND SIDE EFFECTS WHEN USED IN MODERATION AND IS NON ADDICTIVE., BUT DOES MAKE A NICE REPLACEMENT FOR BEER AND LIQUIRE!!!! OH HELL YEAH!!!!
AND IT DOES'NT MAKE YOU WANNA KICK EVERYONES ASS AND FALL DOWN THOWING UP YOUR GUTS AND THEN DRIVING THROUGH A CROWDED STREET WHERE YOU WIPE OUT A FAMILY OF EIGHT IN YOUR 8000 lb. SUV DOING NINETY IN "TWENTY!"FIVE., BECAUSE YOU ARE WASTED AND STUPID AND HAVE CRAPPED YOUR PANTS AGAIN!!!!
OH NEVER MIND THE DRAMATIC DIFFERANCE BETWEEN THOSE BEHAVIORS OF AN ALCOHOLIC DRUNK STUPID PERSON AND THE HAPPLESS STONER ON THE COUCH EATING A BAG OF OREOS AND DOWONING A GALLON OF GOOD OLD FASHIONED COW SQUEEZINGS.., mmm.,
MOO JUICE..., YOUKNOW WHAT THEM CITY FOLK CALL MILK!!!!!
OH!!! MAN VIDEO GAMES!!! NO WAIT!!!! MORE COOKIES!!!!!!!!
STUPID GOVERNMENT LIES AND STUPID PEOPLE WHO BLINDLY FOLLOW THEM ARE WHAT WE HAVE HERE TODAY.
MAN!!!! THESE GOVERNMENT LAKIES OF BIG BUISNESS AND BIG PHARMA ARE THE RUINATION OF OUR GREAT SOCIETIES AND OUR MORAL CODE HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THEIR INVENTIONS OF SERVITUDE TO THEM.,THE DEMANDS/COMMERCIALIZATION FOR MORE OF OUR WEALTH IS SACRIFICED FOR THE PLEASURE OF A FEW ELITE!!!
I SAY IT'S "HIGH TIME" WE SAY NO MORE LIES!!!!!
NO MORE SERVITUDE TO THE STATE
NO MORE PROHIBITION ON MEDICINAL PLANTS!!!
STARTING WITH MARIJUANA!!!
ENDING WITH BETTER ACCESS TO PAIN MEDICATION/OPIATES!!!
FOR THE INFIRM ANS SICK AND DYING!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN!!! FREE YOUR MIND., FREE THE PLANET!!!

peoplefrthepeople

Nov 3 2009, 2:01 pm

"Everything you know is a lie", By Lloyd Pye on video google, anyways. Why havent we been taught and built upon as a whole the writings of the ancient sumerian culture? The only thing i learned about them in the fool system was they were the first with irrigation and the first with language and writing, never learned what they wrote. They do this for a reason, Darwin is wrong about humans. We are not in the natural order of things on this Earth. Our mitochondrial dna doesnt stop at 250,000 years ago for no reason, please watch the video and spread the word

Red Bud

Nov 3 2009, 1:49 pm

For years the government has used every reason imaginable to justify their policies on marijuana. The fact of the matter is marijuana is a safer alternative to tobacco and alcohol. The government can no longer justify their stance on marijuana. Instead of the government heeding the advice of it's own scientists, the government fires them. The government will only listen when what you're saying is inline with their philosophical point of view. The problem is more deeply rooted than a simple law change.
Let's look at the police for a moment. Depending on where you are, the penalties for possession can be quite stiff. The police catch you with an ounce or so of marijuana. They take your car, they sell it and the money goes to pay for equipment and overtime. The money that you may have had when you got busted will just disappear. The police most certainly would not like a liberal law. They'll use words like public safety to justify themselves but we all know it's about money. The judicial system also benefits from marijuana. When you're standing there and the judge is figuring out how to punish you. He looks at the type of job you have and the money you have coming in. If your poor, he'll give you some jail time. But if you have money, he'll slap you with 1000's in fines and make you go to a rehab center for your "problem". It's about the money every time.
It's time to end all this nonsense, people know what's really going on. I have a question for any politician, judge or policeman who may be reading this.
Do you really believe that locking up someone or saddling them with fines is less harmful than the marijuana they were caught with?

finally

Nov 3 2009, 11:47 am

it's about damn time some government officials in some parts of the world stand up and fight for whats right. maybe soon the US gov't will follow.......

sucker

Nov 3 2009, 11:32 am

government is full of people who lie for a living, a bunch of con artists, when a politician gets hired they make sure he will be a puppet and a government mouth piece, that is what governments are, they just made it clear, if you speak the truth they will be fired and discredited.
a criminal institution, who feed of tax payers like parasites, the entire structure is rotten,not credible.

peopleforthepeople

Nov 3 2009, 10:26 am

See! Those officials STOPPED playing the game. They got up and quit playing the stupid little game the government has put in place for them and their country, finally realizing that it is a game and we can quit playing whenever we want. The government institutions do not care what you think they want you to play the game until you die and get every cent out of you until you are dead, it is time we realize this and move forward as the human race. EVERYONE can do this, because the rallies and the protest didn't work then and will not work now. ITS time for peace , love, and to be one again!

Bobcat

Nov 2 2009, 11:27 pm

Legalize it!!
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chupacabra

Nov 2 2009, 8:56 pm

Governments are far away from reality and they are not listening to a group of scientists who know better, we all must protest and rally behind these courageous professionals who only want to speak the truth, if we don't support professor Nutt then we are missing this opportunity to important and unprecedented victory for the cannabis legalization, what are they going to say now? maybe the government will say he smokes cannabis to discredit him or look for some dirt on him to silence him.
It is a very brave and honorable man who gave up his government job to let the world know the truth about cannabis. He was absolutely right to speak the truth and should never regret doing so.
the truth is in the open cannabis is quite benign and harmless screw the government propaganda and lies,
we don't want the pharmaceutical dope, we prefer a natural medicinal plant, Get your glowpanel 45 and glow your own.

Big daddy

Nov 2 2009, 8:01 pm

It will be legal!
Will you be ready?
Hydroponicsbrew.com

smitty

Nov 2 2009, 6:49 pm

It's amazing how uninformed these guys sound! Even more ignorant than some of our pol's, if thats possible!!

More bull,even deeper

Nov 2 2009, 6:32 pm

They differ none from our own congress,we have had scientific studies done on marijuana since 1972,and every one has recommended marijuana be removed from schedule 1, and that it was a possible therapeutic medicine,and congress has ignored them.
Apparently all elected officials are fools.

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