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Prof Nutt was sacked on Friday after using a lecture to say that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
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This point of view always puzzles me.
Firstly to smoke Cannabis you mix it with tobacco and then smoke it through an unfiltered spliff. Also I have never met anyone that smoked Cannabis regularly that wasn't a smoker anyway.
So to say it's less harmful than smoking is ballcocks it's at least as harmful and then with the possible affects it has on the brain I would say that it is marginally more harmful.
And in regards to the alcohol side of things, yes alcohol is an issue, we have many youngsters binge drinking. Would you rather have them a smoking cannabis? which would no doubt lead many of them to smoking tobacco too?
I think he was right to be sacked, he was employed to give his opnion, his opinion does not have to followed. he home secretary is the person elected by the people to make these decisions - not some jumped up "expert"