Johnson's choice

October 31st, 2009 | Author: Paul

Think about it. You have a very powerful job but it will end in eight months. Nothing you can do will change that end date; so, you have eight months to do what you want.

So, do you:

1. Follow the agenda of the Daily Mail ?

2. Follow evidence-based scientific advice ?

It’s a tricky one, isn’t it? …..Not.

Having said that, in fairness to Alan Johnson, he was getting conflicting advice from two professors.

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dingdongalistic:

October 31, 2009 at 9:27 pm

Who was the other scientist?
Paul:

November 1, 2009 at 8:03 am

It was Professor Lewis Appleby, the government's Director of Mental Health who was in favour of the upward reclassification of cannabis at the relevant meeting of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. This information came out in a call to Any Answers? yesterday from a former Chief Investigations Officer with the customs service. You can hear the call here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qmmy

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