David Nutt strikes back!

I am delighted to read that Professor Nutt is reconvening like minded experts into a new group, free of government bias, to deliver clear, authoritative and apolitical advice on the safety of drugs. You can read about it here. No doubt the upcoming General Election will have the parties competing for the "toughest" stance on drugs, whilst at the same time planning to disinvest from treatment - if any of my readers have the ear of their local MP, please give them this simple message: the harms that drug use cause health have far more to do with their legal status than the drug itself - and that education and treatment will be far more effective at reducing that harm if they are properly financed, and certainly far more effective than criminalisation.