The UK's policing minister has admitted he has never bothered to visit a Drug Consumption Room. Kit Malthouse has been slammed by campaigning Glasgow MP Alison Thewliss after she challenged him in the House of Commons.
Malthouse has rejected out of hand such an approach in Glasgow, despite mounting pressure to do so to tackle Scotland’s drug death crisis.
His refusal comes in the face of record drug deaths in the UK as a whole, which has left to Boris Johnson doubling down on a hardline War on Drugs that critics claim cannot be won.Thewliss quizzed Malthouse on Tuesday on whether he’d visited a Safer Drug Consumption Facility (SDCF) like the one she had visited in Geneva, Switzerland, before writing off such facilities in the UK.There
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