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For almost all of us, the current COVID-19 pandemic represents the first time we have been confronted with a personal and proximate...

A note from our Founder – Professor David Nutt Though all the Drug Science team have been on lockdown work has gone on hardly interrupted...

Author: David J Nutt Published: January 6, 2020 Foreword by Professor David Nutt – “I was removed from my position as Chief Advisor of...

Professor David Nutt’s recent comment in ‘The Times‘ addresses how the ‘Law on psychedelic drugs blocks vital medical research‘. In the...

This event was held ten years to the day that Professor David Nutt was fired from his role as chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse...

The Roots of Cannabis Policy Change David’s talk will explore the basis of cannabis being a controlled drug with a focus on the political machinations behind the decision to make it illegal in the 1930s. He will then describe the efforts that the charity he set up in 2009 have made to reverse this unevidenced action, and share the plans they have for improving access for UK patients, who have been badly let down by the current intense regulations that followed cannabis being

Professor David Nutt explores how psychedelics have been useful for scientists and how their banning has impacted scientific research. #DavidNutt

Oxford Psychedelic Society and Oxford Psychology Society hosted a special lecture by Prof. David Nutt followed by an extensive one-hour Q&A session on 14th May 2019. Prof. Nutt discusses how various hallucinogens work on the brain as well as legal barriers preventing research into hallucinogens and how researchers can overcome them. #DavidNutt

Cannabis is arguably the world’s oldest medicine, with evidence of such use from 3000 year old tombs in Egypt and Siberia. It had a place...

‘Why It’s Time To Change The Drug Laws – To Improve Treatment and Research’ with Prof. David Nutt. Filmed at Cambridge Skeptics on Tuesday 26th March 2019 at The Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge. #DavidNutt

On 1 November 2018 cannabis products changed in legal status from a controlled drug without medical use to a Schedule 2 medicine has...

The University of Manchester in association with the British Association for Psychopharmacology were proud to welcome Professor David Nutt to deliver a public lecture on brain science. A phenomenal and fearless speaker, David’s talk covers brain science’s contribution to modern psychiatry, and the potential of groundbreaking new treatments. #DavidNutt

Prof David Nutt spent 10 days providing evidence to the South African courts in 2017 – he reflects on South Africa’s positive decision to...

The recent spate of headlines about the rising use of monkey dust drug in Stoke on Trent has led to calls to it to be made a Class A drug...

This blog piece is a book chapter written by David Nutt from a book on addiction, targeted at Sixth Form and secondary school students...

On December 14th the government put into effect new controls against a whole range of synthetic cannabinoids. This was their third round...

A version of this post was published in The Guardian It seems the London club Fabric has had its licence revoked on the grounds that its...

Filmed at Breaking Convention: 3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, 10-12th July, 2015 Links within video: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/obama-says-marijuana-no-more-dangerous-than-alcohol/ nwph.net/nwpho/publications/alcoholattributablefractions.pdf DrugScience.org.uk #DavidNutt

A version of this post was published in The Guardian Ketamine is a unique anaesthetic and analgesic that has unfortunately become a...

A version of this post was published in The Guardian The past week has seen a number of drug disasters in the UK, one of which is the...

Around the world, politicians are working to ban e-cigarette marketing, limit their nicotine content, prohibit use in public buildings,...