“Criminalization of marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms and other psychoactive drugs in the United Kingdom amounts to an act of scientific censorship that inhibits further research from being done, according to a leading researcher on the effects of drugs on the human brain.”
“Outlawing of psychoactive drugs amounts to “the worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo,” said David Nutt, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, in a statement accompanying a paper published in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience.”