In the midst of the unattractive scenario of the goverment sacking experts they have hired because they disagree with the goverments own findings, I offer the following observations on drugs versus alcohol.

1) ALCOHOL. I had a friend who got so drunk one night that he not only called a friend in Sweden from the UK for two whole hours and couldn't remember the conversation the next day, but he also thought that it would be a good idea to eat an Orange. Nothing wrong there except he decided in his stupor that it would be best served microwaved and the ensuing explosion took two days of scrubbing to get the microwave vaguely normal.

2) DRUGS. A guy who used to drink in a pub I played music in regularly was a prolific dope head. He was so stoned one morning that he walked into the road without looking and got run over. Nothing unusual there except he got run over by a milk float.

MY CONCLUSION. The goverment and the experts are both wrong. One medium doesn't privelage itself over the other in terms of social danger. They both make people stupid, careless, and a danger to themselves and others in entirely equal measure!!!