News tagged with “david nutt”. Found:
14 tagged news reports.
Your Search Returned 14 tagged news reports
Sacked adviser urges drugs probe
Lisbon :: Portugal | 16 days ago
Credibility
Prof Nutt told the BBC the possibility of allowing Dutch-style cannabis cafes should be "explored". But his call comes as another academic is due to publish a study highlighting the possible links between the drug and schizophrenia. "The more you smoke,...
Tags: David Nutt, prof nutt, Prof Murray, BBC Radio, Robin Murray, Portugal, Lisbon, Antiemetics, Effects of cannabis, Legality of cannabis, Medical cannabis, Psychosis, Cannabis, Medicinal plants, Psychedelics dissociatives and deliriants
Three drug advisers quit after Johnson summit
London :: United Kingdom | 26 days ago
Credibility Three more government drug advisers resign Scientists quit after meeting home secretary after sacking of Professor David Nutt Alan Travis , home affairs editor, and Alok Jha Professor David Nutt speaks at the Science Media Centre in London after his...
Tags: David Nutt, drugs adviser, Alan Johnson, Prof Nutt, adviser resign, professor nutt, professor david
Are your drugs laws working? Ask a scientist
London :: United Kingdom | 29 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: David Nutt
MPs seek answers on Nutt sacking
Oxford :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Commons Science Committee has written to him asking for clarification of the reasons for the decision and the sequence of events leading up to it. It wants to know whom he consulted before removing Professor David Nutt and whether the adviser broke...
Tags: David Nutt
Drug body 'fatally flawed', says sacked chairman
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Ecstasy and LSD, said when asked about the advisory body's future: "I think it's frankly fatally flawed. "I think it should be re-formed with a new structure with a much clearer demarcation of the reporting lines. Bank of England, which has responsibility...
Tags: David Nutt, fatally flawed, professor nutt
The iconoclastic wisdom of David Nutt
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility And when the first antidepressants were created in the 60s, psychiatrists were delighted that they now had what seemed to be a cure for depression. However, it soon became clear to depressed people – and to many of us working in the psychiatric system...
Tags: David Nutt
Scientific adviser backs sacked drug 'tsar'
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Government’s chief scientific adviser said today that he agreed with the sacked drugs “tsar” Professor David Nutt when he said that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes. Professor John Beddington, the most senior scientific adviser...
Tags: David Nutt, Alan Johnson, professor david, John Beddington, Prof Nutt, scientific adviser, drug adviser, professor john, THE UK, Gordon Brown
Hugh Pennington: Scientists – 'on tap but never on top'
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Scientists who advise Government swim in shark-infested waters, as Professor Nutt's fate proves...The semi-independent inspectors used by the first chief medical officer, John Simon, were such sanitary enthusiasts that in 1871 they were castigated by...
Tags: David Nutt
Johnson defends drugs row sacking
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility In a letter to the Guardian, Alan Johnson says Prof David Nutt went against a "long established" principle by straying into politics. Two Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs members have resigned in protest at the sacking. Prof Nutt has said he doubts...
Tags: David Nutt, professor david, Alan Johnson, Prof Nutt, Mr Johnson, drugs policy, professor nutt, drugs adviser, secretary alan, New Labour
Home Secretary Defends Drug Tsar Sacking
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility He was particularly scathing about former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith upgrading cannabis to a class B drug, against his advice. Ex-drug tsar Professor David Nutt "You cannot have a chief adviser at the same time stepping into the public field and campaigning...
Tags: David Nutt, professor david, Dr Les King, Misuse of Drugs, drugs adviser, political reasons, Britain, Advisory Council, Alan Johnson, Prof Nutt
Site Links
Site Topics
Contributions
- Report Your News
- Add your voice and contribute via your cellphone - check out how to Report News via Your Cellphone
- Blog Widget
- Widget for Blog Owner
