Drugs
Out of hiding, Calamity Grayling is wrong on drugs & reoffending
After more gaffes, Chris Grayling has come out of hiding. But his interventions yesterday on drugs and reoffending are out of touch with society and reality.
Sacked drugs adviser says Government will eventually “have to accept” his advice
Prof David Nutt, the drugs adviser sacked by the Government last year, has said that they will eventually "have to accept" that his scientific view is "correct"
Why Melanie Phillips is Nutts on drugs
A point-by-point fisking of Daily Mail extremist Melanie Phillips’s analysis of the Professor Nutt sacking.
Johnson defends Government drugs policy
The Home Secretary defended the Government’s drugs policy today in an attempt to regain the initiative following the controversy over the sacking of Prof. Nutt.
Johnson should listen to advice on drugs
The Government's advisor on drugs has criticised politicians for "distorting" his research. He says alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs
Government should listen to its advisers on drugs policy
There is an interesting story in today's Independent, flagged in Left Foot Forward's Politics Summary, which reports that a group of government-appointed drug experts are to call for a nationwide network of "shooting galleries" to provide injectable heroin for drug addicts following successful trials. The current Government is on record many times insisting that their policies will be based as far as possible on evidence. In the area of drugs policy, however, there have been two recent occasions when the government has gone against their own advisory body.