"John Watson" <drj
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And surely everyone would want to read the wise and well-researched views of
the dullard Peter Hitchens, too:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-1224335/PETER-HITCHENS-T... Good riddance to Professor Poison
Cannabis is an evil lottery ticket whose top prize is a lifetime gibbering
in a locked ward. And it pays out rather more often than the other lottery.
So it is pleasing to see the dismissal of the fatuous Professor David Nutt,
the Government's supposedly scientific adviser on drugs.
Professor Nutt seems strangely unaware of the mounting evidence of the
dangers of cannabis, particularly the work of Robin Murray, who recently
savaged Professor Nutt's use of statistics and attacked the general
sloppiness of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Professor Nutt's diversionary tactic of claiming that tobacco and alcohol
are 'more dangerous' than some illegal drugs is the age-old excuse of the
hippy generation.
So what if they are? How does the existence of two legal poisons justify the
creation of more? Why is it an argument against properly enforced laws to
discourage them?
It is vital that we do all that we can to warn the young against these
dangers. It is too late to ban alcohol, though many of us would like to go
back to strict licensing rules.
The law worked against drunken driving and in reducing smoking. Our
drug-corrupted political and media elite view Professor Nutt as a hero
because he helps them excuse their own wrongdoing.
Read more:
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/debate/article-1224335/PETER-HITCHENS-T...
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