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Sunday, November 01, 2009

An adviser to the government has resigned in protest at the home secretary's sacking of his chief drugs adviser, Prof David Nutt.

Dr Les King quit the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), saying Home Secretary Alan Johnson had denied Prof Nutt's "freedom of expression".

Prof Nutt was sacked after saying cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or nicotine.

He said the drug had been upgraded to Class B against scientific evidence.

The reclassification had been for political reasons and "on the whim of the prime minister", Prof Nutt claimed.

After being sacked via e-mail by Mr Johnson, Prof Nutt predicted there would be resignations from the government advisory body that he headed.


Saturday, October 31, 2009

Fifteen people have been killed on a remote ranch in Sonora state, Mexico, including a prominent union leader. The killings bear the hallmarks of drug gang murders. More than 15,000 people have died in drug-related violence in the country since 2006.


The number of swine flu deaths reported worldwide has jumped by more than 700 in a week, latest World Health Organization figures reveal. More than 5,700 swine flu deaths were reported by Oct. 25, compared to nearly 5,000 the week before. The biggest rise was in the Americas where 4,175 deaths have been reported, up 636 from the week before.


Friday, October 30, 2009

Scientist Tony Darnell of DeepAstronomy.Com uses the images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's "Ultra Deep Field" experiment to illustrate the immensity of the universe. "One of the most profound and humbling images in all of human history," Darnell says.

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Two coyotes have attacked and killed a 19-year-old woman in a national park in eastern Canada. Taylor Mitchell, 19, an acclaimed young folk singer from Toronto, was attacked as she hiked alone in Cape Breton park, Nova Scotia.


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