David Nutt

Professor David Nutt is the Edmond J Safra Chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. He was previously chair of the government Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs.

Why whisky may be worse for you than cocaine

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has hit out at the longstanding US ban on cocaine, in response to Donald Trump’s crackdown on the drugs trade. ‘Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whisky’, Petro argued last week, adding that ‘scientists have analysed this’. He also suggested that