Submitted 1 year ago by Oneeightnine@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66929385
Nice to see a bit of progress on this issue.
The consumption room plan is supported by Scottish National Party, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians but the UK Home Office insists “there is no safe way to take illegal drugs”.
There is no ideal way. Drugs are dangerous, but people take them. I am disappointed by the resistance to legalise drugs. While drugs are illegal, they are unmonitored. I don’t take drugs myself. I don’t even drink anymore
One of the reasons illegal drugs are as dangerous as they are is because they are illegal. Their illicit nature means they are manufactured and distributed without any proper oversight or regulation, leading to dangerous lack of quality control.
If recreational drugs could be purchased with proper standards for purity, dosage etc they would be much safer for their users.
The Hat Fox: If recreational drugs could be purchased with proper standards for purity, dosage etc they would be much safer for their users.
Social conservatives (inc. parts of the PLP): And that would be a bad thing. Drug consumption is a moral failure and should be punished by poverty, humiliation and death.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Glasgow’s Integration Joint Board, which brings together NHS and council officials, ratified the plans at an online meeting on Wednesday morning.
The idea has been discussed for years but it is able to go ahead now after Scotland’s senior law officer said users would not be prosecuted for possessing illegal drugs while at the facility.
The guidance issued to prosecutors by Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC earlier this month stated that it would “not be in the public interest” to bring proceedings in such cases.
The Glasgow consumption room would be based at Hunter Street in the east end of the city alongside a clinic where 23 long-term drug users are currently prescribed pharmaceutical heroin.
Susanne Millar, chief officer of Glasgow’s Heath and Social Care Partnership, said engagement would begin immediately, with an initial community meeting scheduled for Thursday.
The consumption room plan is supported by Scottish National Party, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians but the UK Home Office insists “there is no safe way to take illegal drugs”.
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UK Home Office insists “there is no safe way to take illegal drugs”.
There’s also no 100% safe way to eat a sandwich. Much more dangerous to get into a car than to smoke weed. UK Home Office can get in the fucking bin.
There’s also no 100% safe way to eat a sandwich.
As Ed Miliband knows well.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. If people are going to use – and some are – harm reduction seems like a no-brainer.
Yes, it would be great if people weren’t shooting up at all… but you can’t quit if you’re dead.
You’d think that after the recent (20+) years we would learn that the HomeOffice is unfit for purpose and a total shambles.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It’ll turn out to be a huge success, where drug related deaths decrease and general drug related crimes go down, and then the government will shut it down.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 year ago
You’re forgetting the middle step, bringing in an outside expert to give them justification to shut it down.
Then when the expert concludes the room is fantastic, and saving lives, they’ll sack them, and shut it down anyway.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 1 year ago
That’s the “problem”.
Syldon@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Sunak gave assurances in the last PMQs that he would not use powers to shut it down.
Spendrill@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sunak is unlikely to be in power for longer than it takes for the pilot to generate ‘usable’ statistical results.
The Conservatives can then use this scheme to attack Labour while in opposition, ‘Labour is weak on drugs!’ Labour then u-turns ‘They can’t make up their mind!’ and closes the trial down, ‘Sunak let this pioneering study go on and now Labour have shut it down!’
Alternative scenario: it works and Labour don’t shut it down, The Sun running the headline ‘300% leap in crime near treatment room!’ Conservatives: ‘Labour is soft on crime, mollycoddling junkies while ordinary people struggle.’
If you always argue from a place of bad faith then life never disappoints you.