Professor Nutt is at it again, scolding the British Government for classifying illegal drugs based on political prejudice instead of harmfulness.
The British Government's chief drug adviser has sparked controversy by claiming ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol.
Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, attacked the decision to make cannabis a class B drug.
He accused former home secretary Jacqui Smith, who reclassified the drug, of "distorting and devaluing" scientific research.
Prof Nutt said smoking cannabis created only a "relatively small risk" of psychotic illness. And he claimed advocates of moving ecstasy into class B from class A had "won the intellectual argument".
All drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, should be ranked by a "harm" index, he said, with alcohol coming fifth behind cocaine, heroin, barbiturates, and methadone.
Tobacco should rank ninth, ahead of cannabis, LSD and ecstasy.
Prof Nutt said: "No one is suggesting that drugs are not harmful. The critical question is one of scale and degree. We need a full and open discussion of the evidence and a mature debate about what the drug laws are for - and whether they are doing their job."
Thanks Mr. Tumnus!
I call bulls**t on you sir.
You are missing the value of his suggestion, if you get drunk every day, chances are that you have an addiction to alcohol, you will die of liver disease.
If you smoke cigarettes every day, you will probably die of lung cancer.
Cigarettes kill more people every year in britain that pot, amphetamines, MDMA, LSD and mushrooms COMBINED GLOBALLY. Check your facts