Johnson defends sacking adviser

Home Secretary Alan Johnson has told MPs that he sacked a government drugs adviser because he "criticised rather than advised".Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was sacked on Friday after using a lecture to say that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.

BBC | November 2, 2009

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