David Nutt is the best. Lovely to find him here. Decades ago I was injected with ketamine by a druggie doctor who didn't tell me it would paralyze me. He held by hand and assured me that all was well so I could pay attention to what it was doing to my brain, but that showed me how Matthew Perry died, that no one reported on. They said ketamine in his system but not what it does to you, which, if he had my experience, would have rendered him unable to move in the hot tub where he drowned.
Yes thank you for this invitation, and I don't wish to impugn Prof Nutt's scientific credentials, rather his political and personal agendas to hold in utter contempt the truth about drug policy and the metaphysical aspects of drug culture.
You see law is a precise discipline just like science, words are just as important as in science. Whilst I am sure professor Nutt would laugh at a commentator who sought to measure distance in kilograms or make category errors, he does precisely this when engaging in drug policy. My understanding of this subject is extremely good having developed it with drug chemist Casey Hardison, and I don't expect everyone to understand or get it, I have spoken at length with David Nutt in person and exchanged a lot of comments that leave me in no doubt that his continued dissemination of misinformation is both deliberate and calculated.
There is something very sinister about the prohibitionist system and I now see that David Nutt wants to alter it for his own ends in a highly illiberal and elitist way. And to further that cause he has created Drug Science to perpetuate the central myths of prohibition in order to benefit from specific entitlement to run business and research whilst the rest of us suffer the terrible cost of violent policing.
Perhaps his most insidious of deceits is the misuse of transferred epithets of false equivalence. I say false equivalence as the law is not described by words, but IS the words, once you misrepresent what is legal and illegal, you fundamentally break the legal contract, ie the equation of justice that balances reasonable freedoms with public protections. David Nutt has done so much to perpetuate the lie of drug legality that I now see him as a foe, a Trojan horse in the reform movement. HIs idea of 'legal' and 'illegal' drugs without the hot air is palpable nonsense, and in this piece he really doubles down on these lies - drugs can no more be legal or illegal than a brick have the mens rea of an assault, he knows it's a lie, he knows that prohibition is based on this linguistic deception, but chooses to push it anyway. That makes him an extremely problematic character holding back the possibility of a progressive future for mankind whilst he preserves special entitlements for medics and pharmaceutical companies to play god with the tap leading to conscious enlightenment.
David Nutt is the best. Lovely to find him here. Decades ago I was injected with ketamine by a druggie doctor who didn't tell me it would paralyze me. He held by hand and assured me that all was well so I could pay attention to what it was doing to my brain, but that showed me how Matthew Perry died, that no one reported on. They said ketamine in his system but not what it does to you, which, if he had my experience, would have rendered him unable to move in the hot tub where he drowned.
Thank you for sharing your painful story Suzanne. Your story underlines the imperative of our carefully vetting our guides.
Golden light,
Richard
Yes thank you for this invitation, and I don't wish to impugn Prof Nutt's scientific credentials, rather his political and personal agendas to hold in utter contempt the truth about drug policy and the metaphysical aspects of drug culture.
You see law is a precise discipline just like science, words are just as important as in science. Whilst I am sure professor Nutt would laugh at a commentator who sought to measure distance in kilograms or make category errors, he does precisely this when engaging in drug policy. My understanding of this subject is extremely good having developed it with drug chemist Casey Hardison, and I don't expect everyone to understand or get it, I have spoken at length with David Nutt in person and exchanged a lot of comments that leave me in no doubt that his continued dissemination of misinformation is both deliberate and calculated.
There is something very sinister about the prohibitionist system and I now see that David Nutt wants to alter it for his own ends in a highly illiberal and elitist way. And to further that cause he has created Drug Science to perpetuate the central myths of prohibition in order to benefit from specific entitlement to run business and research whilst the rest of us suffer the terrible cost of violent policing.
Perhaps his most insidious of deceits is the misuse of transferred epithets of false equivalence. I say false equivalence as the law is not described by words, but IS the words, once you misrepresent what is legal and illegal, you fundamentally break the legal contract, ie the equation of justice that balances reasonable freedoms with public protections. David Nutt has done so much to perpetuate the lie of drug legality that I now see him as a foe, a Trojan horse in the reform movement. HIs idea of 'legal' and 'illegal' drugs without the hot air is palpable nonsense, and in this piece he really doubles down on these lies - drugs can no more be legal or illegal than a brick have the mens rea of an assault, he knows it's a lie, he knows that prohibition is based on this linguistic deception, but chooses to push it anyway. That makes him an extremely problematic character holding back the possibility of a progressive future for mankind whilst he preserves special entitlements for medics and pharmaceutical companies to play god with the tap leading to conscious enlightenment.
The man is a fraud and a liar - disgusting misinformation