Quakers seek government progress on drug use
Joe Mugford hears campaigners’ views on issues surrounding substance use and misuse
The ongoing situation following the sacking by the home secretary of professor David Nutt from his position on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and the subsequent resignations by David Nutt’s colleagues, was discussed last weekend at the trustees’ meeting of Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs (QAAD). In this meeting several points were raised as important that QAAD felt had been lost in the heat of the media discussion, as QAAD’s Helena Chambers detailed to the Friend: ‘The original recommendation of the ACMD was that cannabis should remain a class C drug, but that the committee should reconsider the matter in two years, when the results of a significant study into cannabis and mental illness will be known. We hope that notwithstanding recent government decisions, this review will still take place, and be acted upon.
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