Home Secretary Alan Johnson will try to calm scientists' anger over the sacking of Professor David Nutt at crisis talks with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Home Secretary Alan Johnson will try to calm scientists'...
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Ben Goldacre, Saturday 7 November 2009, The Guardian Obviously it’s pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor Nutt’s sacking, that everyone outside of politics now recognises the importance of scientific...
Was removed from his post last Friday by Home Secretary Alan Johnson for calling into question the danger of some illegal drugs. (Sun Nov 08 21:23:27 2009 PST)[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%),...
In doing so he was in effect proposing the dissolution of the distinction between the legal drugs and the illegal drugs that has been a cornerstone of our drug laws well before the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act. (Sun Nov 08 09:35:49...