Drugs czar sacking 'caused concern'
Updated on 06 November 2009
The sacking of the Government's chief drugs adviser has caused "serious concern" among the scientific community, the Science Minister Lord Drayson has acknowledged.
In an interview with The Times, he said ministers were now set to agree new principles for the treatment of independent scientific advice in the wake of the row over the dismissal of Professor David Nutt.
Lord Drayson refused to be drawn on whether Home Secretary Alan Johnson had been right to remove Prof Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after he criticised Government decisions on the classification of cannabis and ecstasy.
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