In news that should signal a warm start to the weekend for a portion of local punters, British drugs Tsar Professor David Nutt this week called for drug classification laws to reflect genuine health risks, noting yet again that cigarettes and alcohol are more dangerous than stigmatized drugs such as ecstasy, LSD and cannabis.

The renowned drugs expert pointed out that scientists have already ‘won the intellectual argument’ to downgrade sanctions against ecstasy and suggested young people need ‘more accurate and credible information’ instead of the frightening and sometimes false information currently doled out by authorities.

“I think we have to accept young people like to experiment – with drugs and other potentially harmful activities,” Professor Nutt told the Daily Mail, confirming the striking figures that came out of Manchester this week, revealing that nearly 100% of clubbers are on drugs. “What we should be doing in all of this is to protect them from harm at this stage of their lives,” he suggested.

Professor Nutt previously provoked outrage from much of Britain’s media and politicians when he pointed out that taking ecstasy was similarly dangerous to horse riding though was supported by leading statistician Professor David Spiegelhalter.

Confirming his assertion that taking ecstasy is similarly risky to horse riding, the Cambridge don pointed out that scuba diving is five times more dangerous and hang-gliding eight times as deadly than ecstasy use, suggesting that anti-E sentiment is driven by ‘generally older people feeling the need to take a moral stance’.