From The Telegraph:
In the article, titled "Equasy: An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms", Prof Nutt wrote that "equasy", short for "Equine Addiction Syndrome", had caused 10 deaths and more than 100 road traffic accidents a year. Through hunting, it also led to "gatherings of users that often are associated with these groups engaging in violent conduct... Dependence, as defined by the need to continue to use, has been accepted by the courts in divorce settlements ... Based on these harms, it seems likely that the ACMD would recommend control under the MDAct perhaps as a class A drug given it appears more harmful than ecstasy."
... David Raynes, an executive councillor at the National Drug Prevention Alliance said: "Professor Nutt has made numerous unwise comments prejudging the ACMD review of Ecstasy. Is he on a personal crusade against the laws enacted by Parliament?
Professor David Nutt - you rock!
Rather disappointingly, the National Drug Prevention Alliance/Positive Prevention Plus appears to be a proper charity run by nut cases ... but half their income (Note 2, page 4) was from Drug Free America, who in turn are a USA-based fakecharity, who got $1m dollars - the bulk of their funding - from "Public Support and Revenue", see page 13.
Bingo. What complete and utter shits. If the US government has something to say, then it should say it, trying to influence UK drugs policy like this is totally underhand.
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It was pressure groups like this one, known as abolitionists, American and UK based that got perfectly legal recreational drugs banned early in the 2oth century. Although heroine, with I think 35 addicts, was banned around 1956. Now then, what don't authorities know about terms like 'forbidden fruit' and what happens as a consequence?
I'm an adult. If I wish to pollute my body, physiology and biochemistry with drugs I should be able to. I used to smoke, but gave it up owing to being nagged to deathby my wife and daughters. Not that I smoked in the house, just at the pub. Oh yes, I drink alcohol too, another drug really, but fun and pretty much harmless, if you don't ABUSE it. That's the operative word, abuse. If you abuse anything there are consequences. Abuse food by eating too much and the consequence ultimately is an early death. Eat moderately and have a balanced diet and you can live to a normal lifespan, accidents and cancer willing. You can take recreational drugs safely if you are instructed how to do so and that you have sterile kit if you are injecting. Also if rec drugs were available at a controlled purity and concentration at pharmacies, for an affordable price plus tax, you would wipe out 75% of crime immediately. No drug dealers and their clients wouldn't need to steal to but their stuff.
Laudenum all round.
Unfortunately too many people have fallen for government propaganda over the decades and think drugs are evil. By criminalising them and their possession, drugs were taken away from the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry and given to the unregulated organised crime fraternity. That was really stupid.
Damn the Telegraph report is better than the BBC one I quoted!.
Although fair play to the US, whilst our gummint sticks its fingers in its ears and falls back on a particularly puerile "there is no safe dose" excuse, they at least have (and currently do) allow human testing of MDMA - in the past for truth drugs, dietary aids and currently for trauma patients whom they want to help open up and talk about their traumas during therapy.
SO one or other gummint must be wrong, surely.
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