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Another resignation at the UK’s Advisory Council on Drugs
May 14th, 2010 | 
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Over the past 6 months the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)—an independent expert body that advises government on drug-related issues—has hardly been out of the headlines. One sacking and seven resignations is not a good track record for any organisation. The public’s discontent at the ACMD over how it operates and how it is unduly influenced by government has left a bitter taste, together with a crisis in confidence about evidence-based policy making in the UK.
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Tags: ACMD, Advisory Council, Alan Johnson, cannabis, Cannabis News, Cannabis Science, Eric Carlin, mephedrone, scientists, Society and Cannabis | 
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