Government advisor Professor David Nutt will today recommended the Ecstasy be downgraded to a Class B drug because, it's not as dangerous as horse riding.Last year, 100 people died in horse riding accidents and 30 from incidents involving E.
Prof Nutt (the clue may be in the name) may have a point which I will illustrate with examples from my own personal life:
* I once fell off a horse, it was a long way to the ground and it really bloody hurt when I landed on my head.
* I also once tripped over an Ecstasy tablet in a nightclub that a careless raver had dropped. No injuries were incurred and I didn't get so much as bruise on my toe.
So there you have it, in your face evil Government overlords - strike one for the pro-drug lobby.
This argument (in addition to being marginally flawed) set me thinking, you see, as far as I remember, almost everything that's followed by the words "Class", "A" and "Drug" is usually pretty bad for you and can result in death or serious injury if overdone.
So what exactly is the point in changing the classification of E?
Prof Nutt says it's not really, really, really dangerous so it should be designated less harmful than, say, Heroin. But isn't that a bit like saying pistols are less dangerous than sub-machine guns because they fire smaller bullets - it makes no sense whatsoever!!!
The Home Office have said they'll reject the Nutty Professor's opinion and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said he was trivialising the issue, a bizarre statement coming from a government that won't do anything about the mass production of Heroin in Afghanistan because it might damage their economy, even though we have a ton of troops over there...
Ah well, time to put a big fish and a little fish in a box and throw a few shapes ...
