Glasgow safe drug consumption room to be set up after threat of presecution lifted

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : "Our approach to any initiative aimed at tackling these harms will be to establish how best policing can support it within the confines of the law.
45% : While the service would still be limited to some extent, due to the reserved Misuse of Drugs Act, we are confident it would save lives.
41% : "It is important to note that existing legislation will not be changing and, while we may take an overall supportive policing approach, police officers will still be bound by their legal duty to uphold the law and will not be able to simply ignore acts of criminality which they see occurring.
33% : Yousaf and Sturgeon in drug call to Home SecretaryHowever, the UK Government has consistently rejected pleas for such a facility, with a Home Office spokesperson saying recently: "There is no safe way to take illegal drugs, which devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities, and we have no plans to consider this.

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