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Originally Posted by martyh
I think there is plenty of evidence that drugs like ecstacy can be as harmful if not more than fags and booze ,the task in front of the government is deciding which ones should be allowed and which ones not .
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So they ask a panel of experts for their opinion. The panel of experts then give their opinion, which the government doesn't like. So they say: this wasn't quite the opinion we wanted to hear, could you go back and change your mind please? At which point the panel of experts goes: erm, no. We're experts in this, and we have this opinion because we think the available evidence supports this opinion. So the government decides that the only logical response is to fire the experts.
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