It will end up hurting the elderly and the rest of us by strangling the inventiveness and spirit of innovation that is leading to a fabulous array of new drug breakthroughs from our pharmaceutical companies.
The professor wants Britain which, prior to the 1970s, had drug policies that would seem impossibly liberal today to honour the spirit of its laws, and to adopt a more sober analysis of the risks posed by individual drugs before deciding whether or not to ban them.