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The comments from Alan Johnson, then Home Secretary, are rather telling:

> He was asked to go because he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy. [...] As for his comments about horse riding being more dangerous than ecstasy, which you quote with such reverence, it is of course a political rather than a scientific point.[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/nov/02/drug-policy...

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>> he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy

It's hard to believe he can say that with a straight face. Is he supposed to advise on topics he understands that the government doesn't or is he supposed to be a 'yes man'?

The mental gymnastics there is quite astonishing

> it doesn't actually help clarify the very real public health issues associated with drugs to make distracting comparisons in this way.

Almost like he's managed to put his head up his rectum and it doesn't seems distracting for him to have it there.

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