The Scottish government has proposed decriminalizing possession of all drugs for personal use to tackle one of Europe’s highest overdose death rates.
The suggestion was almost instantly blocked by the Conservative U.K. government in London, which said it had “no plans” to soften drug laws., said Friday that removing criminal penalties for drug possession would “allow for the provision of safe, evidence-based harm reduction services.”
“Our current drug law does not stop people from using drugs, it does not stop people from experiencing the harm associated and, critically, it does not stop people from dying,” Whitham said. She said the crisis would worsen without radical change. She said Scotland was “facing down the barrel of a storm in terms of synthetic opioids and new and novel street benzodiazepines that are heading to our shores.”
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