Society seems to have a problem with deciding what to do with drugs. Certainly it seems that liberalization and legalization is increasingly possible scenario for the future. Status of cannabis in Netherlands, therapy models for heroin addicts in Switzerland, return of research on healthy participants with THC, LSD for anxiety related treatment and MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder or all drugs decriminalization experiments in some Portugal cities... Those are just a few examples showing that open minded and objective approach to drugs can work better than law enforcement and criminalization.
There has been a heated discussion in the recent days inUK
Professor Nutts actually gave a very good review during this lecture which you can read in this briefing from Center of Crime and Justice Studies. I strongly recommend you to read it. Prof Nutt argue that such factors as harm assessment bias, media bias and political stigmatization are just some of the problems that so far prevented most countries from application of multicriteria decision-making in classification and general approach to drugs.
Governments applied this multicriteria decission-making model in case of nuclear waste disposal or terrorist threat assessment so why is scientists’ voice so badly ignored regarding drugs?
There has been a heated discussion in the recent days in
Professor Nutts actually gave a very good review during this lecture which you can read in this briefing from Center of Crime and Justice Studies. I strongly recommend you to read it. Prof Nutt argue that such factors as harm assessment bias, media bias and political stigmatization are just some of the problems that so far prevented most countries from application of multicriteria decision-making in classification and general approach to drugs.
Governments applied this multicriteria decission-making model in case of nuclear waste disposal or terrorist threat assessment so why is scientists’ voice so badly ignored regarding drugs?
