Ecstasy 'no more dangerous than horse riding'
The risks of horse riding showed that society "does not adequately balance the relative risks of drugs against their harms".
The Daily Telegraph (UK)
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Writing in an academic journal, Professor David Nutt said taking ecstasy was no worse than the risks of "equasy", a term he invented to describe people's addiction to horse-riding. Prof Nutt is the chairman of the Home Office's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs which next week is likely to say that ecstasy should be downgraded to a Class B drug. Campaigners last night called for him to resign, suggesting that he was on a "personal crusade" to decriminalise the drug. "The point was to get people to understand that drug harm can be equal to harms in other parts of life. There is not much difference between horse riding and ecstasy."
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