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Last broadcast on Thu, 19 Nov 2009, 20:00 on BBC Radio 4.
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The sacking of the government's former chief drugs adviser caused outrage in some quarters of the scientific community. Professor David Nutt had criticised the government's decision to reclassify cannabis from class C to class B. James Silver investigates the causes of the row and asks if the government's cannabis classification policy is in disarray.
Sacked adviser urges drugs probe
Professor David Nutt tells the Report he would like to see a Royal Commission investigate whether cannabis should be decriminalised.
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Thu 19 Nov 200920:00
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