Professor David Nutt, the British government’s chief drug advisor, and a key player in this report, was asked to resign the day after it was published. The British government were furious with him, for reasons that were unclear. He said, in the wake of the scandal, ‘My view is that, if you want to reduce the harm to society from drugs, alcohol is the drug to target at present.’ He wanted to put alcohol in the dock, above all other drugs, even face-rotting crystal meth.
