Drugs Live the Ecstasy Trial

dacouch

Azari wrote: »

So you are taking an initialism that directly relates to what it is intended to stand for 'On Demand' and tie that to a term that has been in use for decades by all strata of society and ask if they used it to appeal to youth?

There doesn't seem to be any logic to that at all.

(Unless you see 'On Demand' as not an obvious name for an on demand service and further believe that 'youth' think overdosing is in some way 'cool'.)

Wait til he discovers they also have E4

Dave_C_2

Mindless_Clone wrote: »

What's sometimes frustrating is the carte blanche "ban it" government stance. Surely this programme highlights that what's actually needed is to find out exactly what and how these drugs work so they can be utilised and applied in a proper medical setting if appropriate. Just banning something because some people have died taking it, and you don't really know what it does seems rather short sighted.
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We already had this in the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.(ACMD). The snag is the government took objection to the conclusions reached by professor David Nutt and sacked him. Not for being scientifically inaccurate, more for saying the Drugs such as ecstasy, LSD and cannabis were less harmful than tobacco and alcohol.

This sacking and subsequent resignations at the ACMD has made the department virtually useless, so the government does not have any decent science based evidence on their drugs policy.

But why let facts get in the way of a government policy?

Dave

Azari

It was a very interesting experiment but the programme production was dire.

The faulty radio mike (OK, one can excuse that on a live programme.)

The faulty camera that made it look as if the lights had failed and the studio was on emergency lighting.

Showing messages from the public at the same time as people were talking. No one can properly take in both sets of information at the same time.

Excessively rushed so that they continually cut off even their main experts to lurch away to something else.

I hope the PTB at C4 review the two programmes very carefully and learn some lessons before they try that format again.