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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UK: Is the Home Office attempting to 'body-swerve' official drugs advisers? 🌿UK: Is the Home Office attempting to 'body-swerve' official drugs advisers?
Home Secretary Theresa May and her statutory advisers on drug policy look to be heading for a showdown over government plans to deal with so-called "legal highs".
Some members of The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) are understood to be furious that they were not consulted on proposed legislation for a blanket ban on psychoactive substances.
The relationship between the ACMD and ministers in various governments has long been strained. There have been sackings and mass resignations in the last few years, amid claims that expert scientists were being bullied and ignored because their advice didn't coincide with government policy.
Questions are now being asked as to whether the ACMD is being edged out of the drugs debate - 44 years after a Conservative government set it up to ensure science rather than politics dictated policy.
In the House of Lords yesterday, a number of peers demanded...
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