• evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    The UK did a similar study over a decade ago and the government effectively buried the report because it didn’t shore up their war on drugs rhetoric.

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      Yeah it’s crazy, they also kicked out the chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), David Nutt because he used data to show that the UK ranked the harm of drugs incorrectly, and showed that using MDMA was less harmful than horseback riding.

      He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.

      I guess facts have no place in government policy.