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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.GUERNSEY should lead the way in piloting the medical use of illicit drugs such as Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis, a former UK government drugs adviser has said.
Psychiatrist and ex-drugs tsar Professor David Nutt, pictured, who has courted controversy over his stance on drug policy and was sacked by the UK government in 2009, said making cannabis available for medicinal purposes in Guernsey could not only benefit the health of people locally, but also do a great deal for the economy and tourism.
‘I would also suggest maybe a more rational approach to the law surrounding other drugs,’ he said. ‘MDMA was a medicine before it was made illegal.’
The professor said MDMA, better known as Ecstasy, could offer treatment of, for example, post traumatic stress disorder.
‘Banning cannabis and MDMA is stopping patients getting the benefits, it does not stop youngsters using them. The whole thing is surrounded by...
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