What a shambles. The Brown government employs a scientific advisory council to provide them with supposedly objective information on the dangers of various illegal drugs, then refuses to listen to their advice. When the head of the council, David Nutt, points out that the government is ignoring their advice, they sack him. Other scientists resign in protest. The government’s attempt to present Nutt’s sacking as an issue of authority rather than scientific probity falls flat.
As much as I disagree with their decision on this, the Brown administration is not actually failing in this situation because they decided to pander to Daily Mail readers. Their failure lay in first stating that they would follow the scientific analysis, then ignoring the science when it didn't say what they wanted it to.
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