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This exchange about laws governing stuff that harms you will have you facepalming into next week

Jeremy Vine shared this exchange today between the government’s one-time drugs tsar and the then home secretary, Jacqui Smith.

It took place a few years ago and yet has a timeless quality that alas still resonates today.

David Nutt was later forced to resign as the government’s drugs tsar for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.

Here’s what people said about the dialogue today.

But of all the responses this was the most revealing.

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