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Are your drugs laws working? Ask a scientist

Source: The Guardian
London : United Kingdom | 29 days ago  
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It's pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor David Nutt 's sacking as the government's chief drugs adviser, that everyone outside politics now recognises the importance of scientific evidence in devising laws. But a strange reasoning twitch has appeared, in the arguments...
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