UK - Class A drugs 'should be decriminalised,' says former drug advisor

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Thursday 31 May 2012
Kevin Rawlinson

With reader comments
Drugs such as LSD and MDMA should be decriminalised and sold in pharmacies, the government's former chief drug advisor has said.

Professor David Nutt said that many substances currently banned are no more toxic than alcohol and that the potential penalty and criminal record which go with them amount to more harm than the drugs themselves.

"They should be decriminalised, there is no doubt about that. It is clear, if you are using a drug less dangerous than alcohol, that is a rational choice. If, like crack cocaine, it is more harmful of course, that is different. Addiction is also another matter but it requires treatment," he told reporters yesterday.

He added that he was not in favour of full legalisation and "selling heroin in supermarkets" but said a system whereby drugs - including Class A substances - were sold in pharmacies could work.
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Yeah it would have saved more and more deaths if real mdma tabs were sold like that, not that long ago in Canada with the pma deaths and also further back some deaths in Aus from pma tabs, and most probably some more in other places, and more over time in the future no doubt.

But do the governments really care about their people? Fuck no. You'd think they might care about reaping the tax off it tho instead of letting (sometimes) dodgy cooks or cooks who cant obtain the right chemicals profit.
 
"With reader comments"

Haha, I feel so giddy clicking the link. Those comments are gonna be great
 
Edit actually. LSD in supermarkets,, sounds all very neil mckegenay (Scot drug man) 'doctor as the dealer'... or supermarket in this case. Wont happen in a billion years thogh as much as it sounds ideologically great.

Mad as always nutt, keep up the revolutionary ideas though & policymakers will listen somewhere.
 
One thing I don't get in the article is where he says,

When PCP was being made available in New Zealand, under this system, it was made by companies to a very high quality.
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Surely that's a misquote! Perhaps he said BZP.
 
He's not mad, he just looks it because he isn't afraid to take discussion up a notch. His rational is based off of empirical facts and calculations. He's just a scientist who quite rightly makes a lot of noise about the faults of current drug legislation. I love him...I mean look at him. He comes across as a good guy with a seemingly limitless devotion to the cause.
 
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