They Aren't Even Trying Anymore

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Article summary (for the short attention span folks like myself):

 

British Government, "Marijuana should be kept illegal as it has not been scientifically shown to be safe or have medicinal benefits."

British scientists, "Yeah, about that...."

British Government, "We don't need your silly, elitist science."

 

:thumbsd:

 

 

http://www.theregist...science_advice/

 

Gov decides not to have scientific advice on drugs any more

Get Gillian McKeith on the phone!

 

By John Oates

 

Posted in Government, 6th December 2010 10:58 GMT

 

 

The coalition government is ditching the requirement to seek scientific advice before setting drugs policy.

 

As part of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 government must take, or at least listen to, advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. That committee needed to have at least six scientists on it.

 

But police reform legislation introduced last week will remove the requirement to listen to annoying scientists before setting policy.

 

Ex-Lib Dem MP Evan Harris, told the Guardian: [1] "The government is ill-advised to hack away at science advisory structures.

 

"The solution to the poor relationship scientists and Home Office ministers have had is for both to follow their codes of practice, not for ministers to seek to abolish science advisers."

 

Last year the committee got into a row with then Home Secretary Alan Johnson. Johnson sacked Professor David Nutt, chair of the committee for having the temerity to disagree with government policy. Nutt's departure was followed by the resignation of six of the committee's 31 members.

 

The Nutt sacking led to a wider row about the role of evidence-based policy [2] and the rights of government advisers, who often work for free, to remain independent of the administration they advise.

 

A group of government advisers wrote an open letter asking that independent advice, and those who give it, be respected even if it was not always followed.

 

It said: "It is recognised that some policy decisions are contingent on factors other than the scientific evidence, but when expert scientific advice is rejected, the reasons should be described explicitly and publicly." ®

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Article summary (for the short attention span folks like myself):

 

British Government, "Marijuana should be kept illegal as it has not been scientifically shown to be safe or have medicinal benefits."

British scientists, "Yeah, about that...."

British Government, "We don't need your silly, elitist science."

 

:thumbsd:

 

 

http://www.theregist...science_advice/

 

Gov decides not to have scientific advice on drugs any more

Get Gillian McKeith on the phone!

 

By John Oates

 

Posted in Government, 6th December 2010 10:58 GMT

 

 

The coalition government is ditching the requirement to seek scientific advice before setting drugs policy.

 

 

 

For all of you individual human beings that think this can't happen here, or to you, please WAKE UP! Vote the Republican and Democrat statists and authoritarians out of power so individual human beings can live free, or we all face this and more! Just ask some of the regular posters on this forum who face this nightmare already!

People who aren't harming others or infringing on the rights of others do not deserve to have their lives ruined by those we empower to protect us, and unless we change it, here they come!!!! We will be assimilated...

 

 

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"The Nutt sacking led to a wider row"

Beavis says haheh haheh

We never even bothered to require government policy have some grounding in rationality. It only needs to be popular and reflect common sense.

It has worked so well why does anyone bother with all that silly gobbldy gook those eggheads spout.