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UK: Should the government be listening to scientists about cannabis?

Newsbeat

Monday 02 Nov 2009



Two more government drug advisors have quit after their chairman was sacked on Friday for saying cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes. Do you agree with his sacking?

Health Secretary Alan Johnson says Professor David Nutt's comments, which criticised the Government's tough approach to cannabis and ecstasy, were straying into politics.

He was sacked after saying in a lecture that the government only upgraded cannabis to Class B - against the council's advice - for political reasons and "on the whim of the prime minister".

It's thought more top scientists could also quit in protest with some claiming they can't carry on when their advice is ignored.

Should the government be listening to what their advisors are saying about drugs? Is there any point in having an advisory board when the government doesn't take their advice? Was Alan Johnson right to sack Professor Nutt?

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