Daily Mail -Will Keith Allen's 'balanced' televised drug stunt cover addiction, in...

[edgarshade]

By Julia Manning

PUBLISHED: 20:19, 17 July 2012

With reader comments

Keith Allen is a fine actor. He is also a popular celebrity well known for his drug use and flagrant contempt of the laws that ban the use of narcotics, to the extent that he is reported to have used his daughter Lily to help him sell drugs at Glastonbury.

still stand by my original comments. This is reckless and pointless because the whole reason that we have the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act is that we had built up a repository of evidence showing the detrimental effects of the non-medical use of various groups of drugs. We have archives of research covering both the positive medical benefits of drugs and their side effects, and the drastic results of drug misuse.

It was Professor Nutt who previously suggested horse-riding is more dangerous than taking ecstasy. He may be right when it comes to the in-the-moment risk, but his analogy then crashes. Once you get off a horse the risk is over; with drugs the risks endure, and this is another reason why a programme looking at the initial reaction to drug taking is pretty pointless.

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[Chesh]

i might just stop reading any daily mail articles that pop up here.