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David Nutt

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Name: David Nutt

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Cherie Blair

I was ready to give up alcohol – until I read the latest research

Apparently, the more you drink the greater your protection against heart disease. Does that mean we should all be drinking at least a bottle of wine a day? The case against drinking alcohol has been promoted for so long and with such vigour that even ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Alcohol, Anglican, Enid Blyton, Cherie Blair

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Resignations Follow the Sacking of Government’s Chief Drugs Adviser in UK

Prof. David Nutt London The UK moved a little closer to becoming a totalitarian state on Friday (Oct. 30, 2009) when Prof. David Nutt, the government’s chief drugs adviser, was fired for criticising the government’s policies. In a letter to Prof. Nutt, ... [Seoul Times - 11/20/2009]

Entities: David Nutt, Resignation, Cannabis, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

First Reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Low Times: On the Sacking of David Nutt

Riding a horse is more dangerous than taking ecstasy. I’m serious. Though this fact runs contrary to the D.A.R.E. mindset that has been instilled in the popular consciousness since the 1960s, the numbers prove that there is greater risk involved in saddling ... [Walrus Magazine - 6 hours ago]

Entities: David Nutt, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Ecstasy, Controlled Substance, Barbiturate

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents

Synthetic booze bid for Scotland

ONE OF Britain's leading scientists has said that Scotland should be the test bed for his synthetic alcohol that creates the effect of drunkenness but without the damaging side-effects. Professor David Nutt, a psychopharmacologist recently sacked as the ... [Scotland on Sunday Online - 11/15/2009]

Entities: Alcohol, Scotland, David Nutt, Peebles (United Kingdom), Public Health

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Joss Stone

Mason Tvert: Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack for Marijuana Comment

English pop singer Joss Stone has come under fire for highlighting the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, a viewpoint that has sparked intense debate this month in the UK. As Stone told the UK Daily Mail: Weed has been given ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Joss Stone, Alcohol, Marijuana, Cannabis, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Improving the contribution of experts in policy and politics

RELATED FEATURES RRoger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado considers the key challenges at the interface of advice and decision makingIn recent weeks we have seen a range of conflicts between scientific experts and governments. In the United Kingdom ... [Public Service - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Newcastle-under-Lyme (United Kingdom), Cambridge University Press, David Nutt

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Alan Johnson

Bill Carmichael: Let elected MPs decide drug law

IT takes a great deal to persuade me to sympathise with Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary and West Hull MP, but the scientific community has somehow managed it. The tenured professors have been seething with outrage since Johnson sacked his chief drug ... [Yorkshire Post - 11/18/2009]

Entities: David Nutt, Alan Johnson, Ecstasy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Sacked adviser urges drugs probe

Prof Nutt says decriminalising cannabis could have health benefits. Sacked government drugs adviser Prof David Nutt has called for a Royal Commission to investigate whether cannabis should be decriminalised.Prof Nutt told the BBC the possibility of allowing ... [BBC - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cannabis, Robin Murray, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, David Nutt

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Home Secretary responds to MPs on sacking of Professor Nutt

The Commons Science and Technology Committee publishes Home Secretary, Alan Johnson's, response to its request for background to the sacking of Professor David Nutt as Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.Other responses were requested ... [United Kingdom Parliament - 11/19/2009]

Entities: David Nutt, Alan Johnson, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Art of 'politicianspeak'

A few weeks ago, the government sacked its chief drugs adviser, professor David Nutt. He led the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, whose role is to identify and interpret research about the effects of drugs in order to provide evidence-based advice ... [People Management Online - 11/19/2009]

Entities: David Nutt, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Adoption

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 58 Documents

When scientists and politics mix

The relationship between scientists and politicians has been strained A row has broken out over the relationship between scientists and the government after Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacked his drugs adviser.The dispute brings into the spotlight the ... [BBC - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Colin Blakemore, John Beddington, David Nutt, Alan Johnson

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 23 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Sacked anti-drugs adviser slams Brown

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's former chief advisor on drugs on Saturday accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of overstating the dangers of cannabis for political reasons.Professor David Nutt of Imperial College London was hitting back at the government after ... [Yahoo! Canada - 10/31/2009]

Entities: Cannabis, Gordon Brown, David Nutt

Quotes

...prepared to confine his role to that of a disinterested scientist; he also wants to be a moral crusader fighting against the scourge of alcohol. "i want parents to know alcohol will kill your kids, not ecstasy" , said Nutt last week, before insisting that the minimum drinking age should be increased to 21 (2)...

Elevating environmentalism over less worthy lifestyles [Spiked Online - 11/09/2009]

...His dismissal prompted a furore among the scientific community and two members of the council resigned in protest. "it's hard to see how the remaining members of the council can continue to work under the current arrangements" Nutt said...

More drug advisers set to follow David Nutt and resign [Guardian.co.uk - 11/08/2009]

...'A shifting of the starting age would also reduce the damage to brain and body and the likelihood of becoming dependent,' he said. "there are hundreds of kids lying in hospital beds waiting for transplants that will never come." Prof Nutt said that the existing advisory body was 'fatally flawed' and he would consider setting up a breakaway alternative of his own

Alcohol gravest threat to society, claims sacked scientist [Telegraph - 11/05/2009]

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Low Times: On the Sacking of David Nutt [Walrus Magazine - 6 hours ago]
Village people: 21/11/2009 [The Independent - 23 hours ago]
Resignations Follow the Sacking of Government’s... [Seoul Times - 11/20/2009]
I was ready to give up alcohol – until I read t... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]
Art of 'politicianspeak' [People Management Online - 11/19/2009]
Cannabis — what are the real risks? [PJ Online - 11/19/2009]
Home Secretary responds to MPs on sacking of Pr... [United Kingdom Parliament - 11/19/2009]
Sacked adviser urges drugs probe [BBC - 11/19/2009]
Bill Carmichael: Let elected MPs decide drug law [Yorkshire Post - 11/18/2009]
Improving the contribution of experts in policy... [Public Service - 11/18/2009]
Beer is good but tell that to the righteous [Morning Advertiser - 11/16/2009]
Synthetic booze bid for Scotland [Scotland on Sunday Online - 11/15/2009]
Son of sacked drugs advisor David Nutt pictured... [Mail Online UK - 11/14/2009]
Evidence era to let schools call the shots? [Times Education Supplement - 11/13/2009]
News round up: Baby P, Drug advice row, Tories ... [Communitycare.co.uk - 11/13/2009]
Baby P, Drug advice row, Tories on poverty [Communitycare.co.uk - 11/13/2009]
Government seeks to patch up relations with sci... [Times Higher Education Supplement - 11/13/2009]
MIRED IN CLIMATEOF CONFUSION [The Australian - 11/12/2009]
Brits in a spot over pot [Times Live South Africa - 11/12/2009]
Nutts to these anti-alcohol experts [Spiked Online - 11/12/2009]
Prof Nutt may create new drugs body [Public Service - 11/12/2009]
Parliament is stifling public debate [Guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009]
Media Watch: private patients, statins and scurvy [Health Service Journal - 11/12/2009]
Enjoy cocaine responsibly [Irish Medical Times - 11/12/2009]
DNA database: Acid test [Guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009]
Alan Johnson, casualty of addiction to power [The Independent - 11/12/2009]
Marijuana policy controversy continues in UK [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/11/2009]
Government faces more expert resignations over ... [Ekklesia - 11/11/2009]
Johnson agrees new drugs protocol [BBC - 11/11/2009]
A return to reason? [BBC - 11/11/2009]

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I was ready to give up alcohol – until I read t... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009] Apparently, the more you drink the greater your protection against heart disease. Does that mean we should all be drinking at least a bottle of wine a day?The case ...
Mason Tvert: Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack f... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/16/2009] English pop singer Joss Stone has come under fire for highlighting the fact that marijuana is safer than alcohol, a viewpoint that has sparked intense ...
Parliament is stifling public debate [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009] MPs just don't want to engage with votersMove along, now. There's nothing to see. That's the command that the debate police always manage to get across. The tragedy ...
DNA database: Acid test [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009] Evidence-based policy is proving elusive at the Home Office. Alan Johnson's sacking of Dr David Nutt, followed by multiple resignations from the Advisory Council ...
Marijuana policy controversy continues in UK [FP Passport - 11/11/2009] "Some people get the giggles after using cannabis -- you may laugh at the most random things" cautions "FRANK," the UK's anti-drug website. Despite declining drug ...

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