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Johnson defends sacking adviser

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Home Secretary Alan Johnson has told MPs that he sacked a government drugs adviser because he "criticised rather than advised".

Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was sacked on Friday after using a lecture to say that cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.

READ MORE: Johnson 'lost confidence' in Nutt

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