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Another week, another drama at the body that advises the government on drugs classification.
Our lawmakers will increasingly struggle to ensure drugs classification keeps up with the chemists' creativity.
This may come as a surprise to many but what's striking is how closely these rankings of everyday users matched those of 29 experts who sat in a room in 2010 and generated the data for a Lancet paper calling for a review of drugs classification.
It calls for a review of the Misuse of Drugs Act and drugs classification, which it says has "lost credibility" for many people.
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Comparing the dangers of ecstasy and equestrianism was provocative, as indeed was Professor David Nutt's more recent suggestion, which led to his sacking last week, that "politicised" drugs classifications concealed the reality that alcohol does more harm than LSD.
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.
In recent years, the whole process of determining drug classification has become quite complex and highly politicised.
As the headlines this week alone demonstrate, the whole process of determining drug classification has become quite complex and highly politicised.
Nutt's evidence-based advice to keep cannabis in class C of the drug classification system was overruled by the home secretary.
Hitchens thinks the legal drug classification system, under which cannabis is considered less dangerous than heroin or crack, is "scientifically meaningless".
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