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Nutt told the Guardian the drug classification system needed radical change.
One of the scientists there advises the government on drug classification.
In recent years, the whole process of determining drug classification has become quite complex and highly politicised.
Campaigners for drug law reform have questioned the relevance of the drug classification system, which dates back to 1971.
The shenanigans now enveloping drug classification and scheduling under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act have become absurd.
Under the bill, marijuana would be downgraded one level in the Drug Enforcement Agency's five-category drug classification system.
Hitchens thinks the legal drug classification system, under which cannabis is considered less dangerous than heroin or crack, is "scientifically meaningless".
Nutt's evidence-based advice to keep cannabis in class C of the drug classification system was overruled by the home secretary.
If he was that big and strong he would have ignored Nutt and not pretended that an academic lecture on drug classification constituted a "public campaign" against him.
As the headlines this week alone demonstrate, the whole process of determining drug classification has become quite complex and highly politicised.
The strongest message that it could send is to agree to undertake the comprehensive review of drug classification that Charles Clarke hinted at three years ago.
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