No science please; we’re British Labour

British scientists are up in arms about the Labour government's sacking of Dr. David Nutt as head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after he refused to toe the government's strident line against marijuana and ecstasy. On Friday, Home Secretary Alan Johnson dismissed Nutt, head of the Psychopharmacology Unit in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Bristol, after the Centre for Crime and Justice at King’s College London published a paper containing criticisms he had made of the Brown government’s drug policies in a lecture last July. In the talk, Nutt said ecstasy...