I'm not usually very enthusiastic about professors, given that so often the word seems to be a synonym for liar.
However, in the case of the drugs advisor Professor David Nutt, his offence is the standard one of telling the truth, the one offence no decent member of the establishment is allowed to commit.
Why can't the government be honest about cannabis? That's because they always go along with the corrupt big money. For thousands of years, hemp was a most important locally-grown crop used for many purposes. But then the globalised big business of the cotton trade and tobacco trade developed. You can't grow cotton in the UK, just as you can't grow tobacco here either.
So it was the cotton trade and tobacco trade that decided to tell lies about cannabis in order to close down the localised hemp production and give themselves a monopoly.
Gordon Brown has lost confidence in Prof Nutt? I for one long ago lost confidence in the Downing Street crooks.
