Professor Nutt has been sacked  by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson. He has continually pushed the case for a more rational debate on the subject of drugs in society. The last straw for the government came when the professor said that alcohol and cigarettes were more dangerous than ecstacy and openly criticised the reclassification of cannabis from class C to a class B drug. He has also in the past said that taking ecstacy was no more dangerous than horse riding. …read more