🍄 Conversations around the use of psychedelics in medical research feature at the Medicine Festival this weekend ➡️ Polling shows most people would support for the decriminalisation of certain drugs
called on him to review the law to allow more research into the drug’s therapeutic qualities. Mr Blunt said the Prime Minister had privately given him an assurance in May 2021 that he was committed to rescheduling psilocybin for clinical research. However, the Home Office has so far refused to do so and officials said there are no current discussions for that to change.
Some leading scientists have been calling for change in the UK. David Nutt, the nation’s former “drugs tsar” sacked in 2009 after saying ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol,, saying it can have a “game changing” effect on mental trauma. Now professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial, he says there is a dearth of potential new medications for mental illness.
In a boost for the rescheduling of psilocybin, a clear majority of 65 per cent support the Government allowing research into the potential medical benefits of currently illegal drugs, a poll found this month. The survey, commissioned by the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform and conducted by pollsters Redfield and Wilton, also showed a majority would support the decriminalisation of certain drugs.
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