Drugs Tsar's links to aristocrats group lobbying to liberate laws on mind-bending drugs

Vatic Note:    Should the various fascist gov control Maijane and other mind altering drugs that are currently illegal or simply decriminalize those that are not mind altering?  Now why do these useless feeders who produce nothing care about this issue?  So they can do to it what they did to our food?   I don't think so.   If they  decriminalize it, that is one thing but then to put it in the hands of the government that we trust not at all is totally different, but its the MIND ALTERING drugs that are the problem.   Remember how powerful the mind without mind altering drugs, is.   How will that affect our natural state of energy and creativity?   How about communication with our own gut feelings about things that usually pan out to be right.   What is the purpose of all that?  Because the aristocracy loves us???  LOL  not likely.   Caution is the word here, we have been chemically poisoned enough, I would say.  Besides, our children are already under attack in schools with the mind destroying alopathic drugs without parents permission as it is and its making robots out of them.   Untill the elite no longer control anything, I would not put this in their hands at all. 

Title:    Drugs Tsar's links to aristocrats group lobbying to liberate laws on mind-bending drugs

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By:   Jason Lewish,  Daily Mail, Britian
Date:   April 4, 2010

The Government’s new drugs tsar is listed as an adviser to a shadowy foundation run by an aristocrat lobbying to liberalise laws on mind-altering drugs.




Professor Les Iversen is head of the official Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), which is currently at the centre of the debate over regulating mephedrone – known as M-Cat or Meow Meow.

But the Beckley Foundation, a controversial charity campaigning against anti-drug regulations, claims he is one of its key advisers.

The foundation is run by Amanda, Lady Neidpath – dubbed Lady Mindbender – who admits using drugs herself, including cannabis and LSD, and says one of her two children has also been a heavy user.

Professor Iversen – the third senior Government drugs adviser to be linked to the organisation – does not declare his connection to it on the Home Office’s register of interests.

Last night he claimed he no longer had anything to do with the organisation, but its website yesterday still listed him as one of its panel of 13 scientific advisers. The listing was most recently updated last month.

Lady Neidpath, 67, said yesterday: ‘He, like many important people in this field, agreed to be on our advisory panel. We don’t meet, but Professor Iversen has never asked me to remove him from our scientific advisers list.’

Last night one senior Tory MP called on the professor to resign as head of the ACMD.

Critics say the Beckley Foundation, operating out of a secluded 16th Century Oxfordshire manor house, is committed to legalising drugs under the guise of ‘studying consciousness and altered states’.

The foundation says its work is to ‘direct and support world-class research into the practices used to alter our conscious states, and the policies that seek to regulate some of these practices’.

In 2003, Professor Iversen wrote a paper for the foundation comparing the effects of alcohol and cannabis, and concluded that alcohol was more dangerous. It led him to question why cannabis was illegal when alcohol was not.

Clash of roles? The Government's new drugs tsar, Professor Les Iversen, is listed as an adviser to the controversial Beckley Foundation

At the time, he said: ‘Cannabis should be legalised, not just decriminalised, because it is comparatively less dangerous than the legal drugs alcohol and tobacco.’

But Professor Iversen now says this is no longer his position. He said: ‘That was a view I had in 2003 and a great deal has happened since then.

‘As a scientist it is only right that I should be guided by the best available evidence. As the evidence develops in the drugs field, it is to be expected that individuals will refine their judgments.’

However, his association with the Beckley Foundation publicly continued until at least 2005, when he gave a speech on The Medical Potential Of Cannabis at a seminar for the organisation at the House of Lords.

The event was hosted by Lord Mancroft, the Conservative politician and former heroin addict.

Described as ‘the most knowledgeable parliamentarian on the subject of drugs’, the Eton-educated peer has been the chairman of the Addiction Recovery Foundation since 1989 and is also chairman of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation.

Lord Mancroft supports prescribing heroin on the NHS, saying it could ‘stabilise the lives of those addicts dependent on an ever-growing black market’ and has called for a major rethink in drug-control policy, saying: ‘You can’t ban these drugs because people want them.’

Last night, an ACMD spokesman said: ‘Professor Iversen has presented to the Beckley Foundation. However, he is not employed by them.

'Professor Iversen has presented the evidence concerning the harms of cannabis to the Beckley Foundation in an adviser capacity.

‘Professor Iversen has publicly stated that he fully supports the report that the ACMD produced in April 2008 concerning its consideration of cannabis. The ACMD believe that cannabis is a harmful drug and poses a real threat to the health of those who use it.’

Last month the Beckley Foundation called for the reintroduction of LSD for medical use. It paid for a series of clinical trials to study its effects on the human brain.

In 2008, the foundation published a 226-page document – the Global Cannabis Commission Report – examining the use, prohibition and control of cannabis.

The report, which cost the charity more than £80,000, was launched at the House of Lords and urged the lifting of criminal convictions for use or possession.

Lady Neidpath was brought up in the Oxfordshire manor house from which the Beckley Foundation operates.

Her foundation publicly says it examines links between drug use and creativity, as well seeking to provide a scientific base for changing current drugs laws.

Lady Neidpath, who admits taking cannabis and psychedelic drugs including magic mushrooms, mescaline and LSD, has said: ‘I have always considered myself my own best laboratory.’

She does not think cannabis is harmless, although she believes it is ‘a lot less bad’ than tobacco or alcohol.

And she says that if cannabis was authorised, it could be properly labelled, and Government-controlled.

Her husband Jamie – Lord Neidpath – was a close friend of the Queen Mother and a regular at parties on the luxury Caribbean retreat of Mustique with Princess Margaret and her lover Roddy Llewellyn.

Now in his 60s, he also features in Andy Warhol’s diaries as part of the artist’s louche New York set.

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