7Nov/090
Professor David Nutt’s take on cannabis is a creed and not science
To listen to some of the reactions to Alan Johnson's decision to sack Professor David Nutt, the Government's leading adviser on drugs, you'd think it was a re-run of the Catholic Church imprisoning Galileo for claiming that the Earth goes round the Sun.
But Prof Nutt isn't a martyr to science who lost his job merely for confronting the Government with incontestable facts. He was sacked because, as Mr Johnson insisted, "he cannot be both a Government adviser and a campaigner against Government policy".
Read the full article at the Telegraph