I know, I know — I’m obsessed with drugs. As an antidote to what is now my most-viewed episode of the podcast, I present to you a sort of anti-Peter Hitchens: Professor David Nutt.
Prof. Nutt was once the UK Government’s chief drug policy advisor, before he was fired, in part due to his assertion that taking ecstasy is safer than riding a horse.
How did alcohol prohibition in the US lead to the demonisation of cannabis? How did the UN cause hundreds of deaths from fake ecstasy? Was Queen Victoria a stoner? Find out these things and more in today’s episode of Within Reason.
