Ex - Ante Evaluation; Drug Classification Flashcards
This is a cultural strategy of…
Agenda Denial
This is a cultural strategy of…
Agenda Denial
Who was the professor (expert) who disagreed with government?
What was his position within government?
Professor Nutt Chair of the Drug Advisory Council.
When was Professor Nutt asked to resign?
October 2009
What specific drug did he also ask to re classify?
cannabis.
What drug did he also ask to re classify?
cannabis.
Who was the professor (expert) who disagreed with government?
What was his position within government?
Professor Nutt Chair of the Drug Advisory Council.
When was Professor Nutt asked to resign?
October 2009
In a ‘nutshell’ what did Professor nut claim about drugs and alcohol ?
ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.
What drug did he also ask to re classify?
cannabis.
He called for a new way of classifying the harm caused by ….
both legal and illegal drugs.
What did he put at the centre?
What is more dangerous than ecstasy because more likely to happen?
harm
more likely to fall of a horse than die from ecstasy so this is how it should be classed.
He thinks harm is about…
the risk of harm being caused.
How many stages in this cultural strategy of agenda denial?
Two stages
What is the first stage in this cultural strategy of agenda denial?
The first stage is attacking the credibility of the group/ issue
How did government attack the credibility of reclassifying drugs in this way?
What did they force Nutt to do?
Government used lots of different strategies to stop him talking about it and stop it reaching.
They forced Nutt to resign
Were Nutt’s statistics and evidence false ?
Why was he kicked out then?
No.
Because although his reclassification was credible from a scientific viewpoint, it was controversial.
It is a … based approach?
benevolence
He showed how you could connect harm in terms of recreational drug use and what should follow that?
The way drugs are classified.
The governments content of harm is a … value
Whereas Nutt’s content of harm is …. based
normative value; what we consider to be harmful, not scientifically harmful.
evidence
What stage did the home secretary words reflect?
She was showing…
reflected stage 2 of agenda concern ‘showing symbolic concern for the public’
Where the government just concerned with the harm based approach?
If no, what else were they concerned with?
No
more about what the reclassification would mean in terms of taxes, administration and criminal justice system.
When would government consider reclassifying drugs based on harm?
if it was done in a vacuum with no spill over or knock on affects.
If you reclassify drugs, what impact will this have?
impact on lots of different policy domains and your economy; problematic for any government or policy maker.
The governments content of harm is a … value
Whereas Nutts content of harm is …. based
normative value; what we consider to be harmful, not scientifically harmful.
evidence
Nutt is still a … in his field
technocrat and leading expert.
