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Investigating the medicinal use of illegal drugs on television is a very dangerous precedent

By DR ROBERT LEFEVER
PUBLISHED: 11:00, 25 July 2012 | UPDATED: 11:01, 25 July 2012

With reader comments

In the autumn, Channel 4 is to broadcast a programme called 'Drugs live: the Ecstasy Trial' in which volunteers (contestants?) will be given either MDMA, popularly known as Ecstasy, or a placebo. Then they will be monitored by Professor David Nutt, formerly the previous government's drug tsar. He will observe the effects.
What on earth for? Surely he could go to a rave in order to see the effects of Ecstacy any day of the week.....Ah, now I get it, he's doing an important clinical trial. Channel 4 want to find out, in a carefully controlled independent survey, if Ecstasy has potential medicinal benefits, without significant harmful effects in small doses. So the taking of an illegal drug on television is not a gimmick: it's science.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...gal-drugs-television-dangerous-precedent.html
 
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I like how the article slowly turns away from talking about how this TV show is a bad idea and begins ranting about people wanting legalization of drugs before concluding with the statement that everyone who do want legalization are just secretly drug addicts.
 
IMHO any doctor that supports prohibition has broken the Hippocratic Oath.

BTW. Reader comments are back :)
 
I wrote a university paper in a similar respect titled 'Therapeutic Uses for Illicit Drugs" which touched on many medicinal uses for d-methamphetamine, cocaine, diacetylmorphine (heroin), methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and a few others (of course marijuana and I think GHB). Got an A+ on the paper and my teacher said she learned a lot from my paper and has a new viewpoint for these often "stigmatized" substances.
 
What a terribly written article, it's so hard to move forward when the people for it are cut to pieces by the media who won't even give them a chance.

People stuck in there bubble worlds.
 
LogicSoDeveloped said:
Apparently the government doesn't believe adults can take care of themselves.
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I think the government probably know legalization is the best option, but they're too proud to back down after being firmly against it for all these years.
 
I imagine it would upset the very well connected and super rich suppliers of illicit drugs if they were to be made legal.

Perhaps when the west is fully in control of the world (and its drug supply), THEN we might see a change in law because the big boy's wont fear being challenged by (other) capitalists trying to get in on the action.
 
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