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Article: Six drugs service scientists may resign over sacking of chairman
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Growing fury at 'disgraceful' decision that undermines relations
between politicians and scientists
Leading members of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
(ACMD) are expected to resign over the sacking of its chairman,
leaving the service in disarray, one of its leading scientists has
warned.
Dr Les King, a respected chemist and former head of the Drugs
Intelligence Unit in the Forensic Science Service, said that anger
over the "disgraceful" decision by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson,
to remove Professor David Nutt could lead to a meltdown in the 40-
year-old organisation.
He claimed that as many as six of its scientists will resign from
the independent organisation, putting ...