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Consumption rooms: a legal place for illegal drugs?

Sep 27, 2023 View Original Article
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    -64% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -64% Medium Liberal

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43% : But, he added, the government's position remained that consumption rooms were not an "easy solution", and that authorities should continue to "fully enforce the law" on drug users.
36% : The UK's first safe consumption room for illegal drugs has been given the go-ahead by Scotland's authorities.
35% : The proposal for a safe consumption room has been "discussed for years", said BBC News, but can now go ahead following a decision by Scotland's chief public prosecutor that "users would not be prosecuted for possessing illegal drugs while at the facility".
32% : The trial facility, which will allow users to take drugs hygienically and under medical supervision, will be located in Glasgow, a city that has "long had the worst drug death rate in Europe", where more than 400 drug users "regularly inject in public in the city centre", said Al Jazeera.
32% : The consumption room is "supported by Scottish National Party, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians", but they remain at odds with the UK Home Office, which said that "there is no safe way to take illegal drugs".

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