Addicts should be allowed to smoke Class A drugs at a soon-to-open drug room in Scotland, activists have said. The Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) has proposed that the ‘safe consumption facility’ in Glasgow, which is already set to allow the injection of drugs, should be expanded to embrace the smoking of crack cocaine and heroin. She claimed, “there’s a lot of people smoking crack cocaine and also smoking heroin that would benefit from that being part of the facility too”. But Annemarie Ward of drugs charity FAVOR UK said drug rooms just lead “to more substitute prescription drugs. While drugs laws are decided at Westminster, the Scottish Government can set policy on how those laws are applied within the Scottish criminal justice system.

Source: The Times June 18, 2024 15:45 UTC