Scotland is right to try drug consumption rooms
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56% Medium Conservative
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- Policy Leaning
56% Medium Conservative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : She is bound by the Act but she has discretion in setting prosecution policy in Scotland.55% : Assistant chief constable Gary Ritchie confirmed the force would take 'an overall supportive policing approach' to any safe consumption pilot 'within the confines of the law'.
47% : Perhaps, but there is evidence from around the world that they save lives, reduce public consumption of drugs and decrease paraphernalia-related littering.
43% : The policy would only apply to contravention of Section 5(2) of the Act, which deals solely with possession, and Bain says it doesn't 'amount to an exclusion zone whereby a range of criminality is tolerated'.
39% : If this all sounds a bit too cutesy -- an artful way of undermining the law rather than accepting that the legal status of drugs is reserved -- remember that stubborn, horrific fact: the drug deaths capital of Europe.
35% : The problem has always been the Misuse of Drugs Act, the 1971 legislation which governs the policing and prosecution of possession and supply.
33% : Glasgow city council, the Crown Office, Police Scotland and the Scottish government believe they have MacGyvered a solution that gets around the Misuse of Drugs Act.
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