What Exactly Is The Point In The ACMD?
Their advice, when they’re actually asked for it, is consistently ignored in favour of doing the exact opposite, so why don’t we stop pretending to care about evidence and just scrap the ACMD altogether?
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was established in 1971, at the same time the Misuse of Drugs Act came into being, as a supposedly independent body which would advise the government on drug policy. To quote the Wiki entry on the Council, their job is supposedly to:
“…give to any one or more of the Ministers…advice on measures (whether or not involving alteration of the law) which in the opinion of the Council ought to be taken for preventing the misuse of such drugs or dealing with social problems connected with their misuse, and in particular on measures which in the opinion of the Council, ought to be taken”
Seems reasonable enough. A...
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