Drugs Policy

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• Mephedrone and the problem with legal highs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The key side-effect of the mephedrone scare has been a spike in sales – and a government policy now close to breaking point The unintended consequence of this weeks media coverage of mephedrone, a legal drug openly sold on the internet which may be implicated in the death of Gabrielle Price, a 14-year-old girl who ...
  4 days ago

• Cocaine: are the numbers of addicts increasing?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Latest figures show more and more young people seeking treatment for cocaine addiction. Here are the latest figures • Get the data The numbers of young adults entering NHS-funded treatment for cocaine addiction are growing rapidly, according to new statistics today . A total of 1,591 people in England aged ...
  6 days ago

• Dont knock findings on dangerous drugs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A drug may be dangerous but that alone is not a reason to make it illegal. But it is a reason for regulation The Institute of Psychiatry has published research that links skunk and psychosis, and those who champion drug use are the least willing to accept its findings. This is quite the wrong approach. If you wish ...
  6 days ago

• Poll | Would an increased risk of psychosis deter you from using skunk?

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  New research suggests that skunk is associated with a higher incidence of psychosis. Would the risk deter you from using this super-strength cannabis?
  1 week ago

• Bad politicians are slave to public opinion. Good politicians try to change it | Polly Toynbee

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Social scientists now need to take a leaf out of David Nutts book, and speak out on bad policies – yet recognise politics is an art The latest culture clash between politics and science sent a spasm of anger and alarm through every academic discipline. The sacking of Professor David Nutt as head of the Advisory ...
  1 week ago

• If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by...

  
  Life is a Thrill — Authority: 141
  If Marijuana Production Were Legal: Projected Tax Revenues, by State | Sloshspot Blog
  3 weeks ago

• Letters: The shameful use of sedatives to keep elderly patients quiet

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  As a nurse with 20 years experience, I am all too familiar with the use of sedatives to reduce the time and effort required for the care of elderly patients ( Anti-psychotic drugs kill 1,800 dementia suffers every year , 13 November). I recently lost a dear friend. At 96 years old, she was blind, profoundly deaf, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Authorities back down over UK drug users on benefits

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Opponents halt plans to order them into treatment Plans to order drug users who are on benefits into treatment have been dropped after overwhelming opposition from medical and legal experts. The governments welfare reform bill would have given Jobcentre staff powers to "order" benefit claimants to undergo tests for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Economics on the web

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 124
  ●  Philip Booth argues in the FT that ethics alone will not stop financial crises   ●  Patrick Basham and John Luik explain why banning tobacco displays benefits the black market    ●  Art Carden asks whether drugs should be legal   ●  David Friedman examines corporate governance   ...
  3 weeks ago

• Numbers

  
  Ministry of Truth — Authority: 109
  An adventure into drugs policy, risk and mortality statistics…
  3 weeks ago

• The jaw-jaw after the war on drugs| Sue Blackmore

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  A new book addresses the idea of responsible drug-taking. Anarchy is not the inevitable outcome of ending prohibition The war on drugs has failed , but what should replace it? A powerful argument for defenders of the status quo has been that there is no viable alternative – that any softening-up on drugs would ...
  3 weeks ago

• David Nutt row referred to chief scientific adviser

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Professor John Beddington to report to PM on freedom of drug advisers to publicly criticise government policy The issue at the centre of the row between the home secretary and his drug advisers – their freedom to publicly criticise government policy without being dismissed – has been referred to the chief ...
  4 weeks ago

• Three more drug advisers resign

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Scientists quit after meeting home secretary after sacking of Professor David Nutt Three more government drug advisers resign over the home secretarys sacking of Professor David Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). The three all resigned after a face-to-face meeting with Alan ...
  4 weeks ago

• Johnson’s Flavour of the Month leaves Bad Taste

  
  Ministry of Truth — Authority: 109
  The row over the sacking of Professor David Nutt is, it seems, rumbling on nicely with this exchange between Evan Harris and Alan Johnson in regards to the accuracy, or otherwise, of comments made by Johnson in his statement to the House of Commons:The exchange contains this classic example of politician, Johnson, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Science Weekly podcast: The sacking of Professor David Nutt and we relive the LHC emergency

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  We look at the sacking of the governments chief drugs adviser David Nutt. It came a day after he claimed ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol . We ask what role scientific advisers should play in politics. Read all our coverage of the Professor Nutt controversy . In the newsjam we discuss whether ...
  4 weeks ago

• The big issue: Cannabis debate. Professor Nutt got it wrong | The Observer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  I agree with the government for sacking Professor David Nutt, who is telling people that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (" Ministers face rebellion on drug chiefs sacking ", News). I have manic depression, diagnosed after I had my first breakdown, aged 15. Twenty four years on and I am ...
  4 weeks ago

• More drug advisers set to follow David Nutt and resign

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Members of Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs to demand assurance of future independence from home secretary Alan Johnson More members of the governments Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs are set to resign unless they receive reassurances on its future independence from the home secretary, Alan Johnson. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Are your drugs laws working? Ask a scientist

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Its pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor David Nutts sacking as the governments 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Minister pledges rules on independence of advisers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Science minister Lord Drayson says the scientific community is right to be upset about the sacking of David Nutt, but defends the governments right to ignore scientists advice The science minister, Lord Drayson, has committed the government to producing guidelines by Christmas to ensure the independence of its ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cannabis is dangerous | John Robertson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  David Nutt is wrong. Reclassification of this harmful drug would send out the wrong message to our children As a Labour loyalist I seldom vote against the government – in fact there are three occasions when my conscience has led me to rebel since my election to Westminster. I am often asked about my position on the ...
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