Drug tsar who claimed ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than alcohol is sacked
The UK’s chief drugs tsar sacked over his controversial views today launched an extraordinary attack on Gordon Brown and warned the Government’s whole advisory board could quit.Professor David Nutt, fired last night for claiming cannabis, Ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, turned both barrels on the Prime Minister. He declared that the Government had gone too far by defying his and other experts’ advise on cannabis and Ecstasy and claimed ministers were acting before they had even consulted their own advisors.
‘He [Gordon Brown] is the first Prime Minister, this is the first Government, that has ever in the history of the Misuse of Drugs Act gone against the advice of its scientific panel,’ he said. ‘And then it did it again with ecstasy and I have to say it’s not about (me) over-stepping the line, it’s about the Government over-stepping the line.
