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'Not in public interest' to prosecute for possession in consumption room

Scotland's Lord Advocate stressed she had not been asked to 'sign off or approve' such a facility.

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC

Date - 11th September 2023
By - Police Oracle
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With mounting calls for a drugs consumption room to be piloted in Glasgow, Dorothy Bain KC, Scotland's senior prosecutor, said she would publish a policy if they came in, making it clear that possession offences would not be...
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