Thread: Drug law reform
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Old 10-12-2012, 18:41   #22
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Re: Drug law reform
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Originally Posted by danielf View Post
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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
Yeah,what a farce that was.... but then what exactly can the government say? Just anyone who has knowledge of or works in the field knows the current policy isn't fit for purpose....
even the late Eddie Ellison,former commander of Scotland's Yards Drugs and Murder Squad thinks so:
http://eddie.gn.apc.org

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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
Ecstacy can kill in one hit ,never heard of anyone dying from one drink or one fag ,i do agree with your last point though education is a far more valuable tool than imprisonment for users
No doubt one hot could kill,however it is extremely unlikely.... just look at the overall deaths. Alcohol and Fags lead all the way.
How do you compare one drink to one pill? What is a comparable amount? Nobody will die from one glass of beer,but then no one will die from say just 30mg of MDMA.... compare like for like.

There are enough examples of people dying from alcohol poisoning after a night out....

And talking of fags:saying that nobody dies from 1 Fag is disingenuous for a simple reason: they are designed to kill you slowly and hook you from your first.They're a long and slow killer and all the more vicious for it.
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