Don't hesitate to open more drug rooms

SEEING how Scotland’s first drug consumption room performs should not delay the opening of others elsewhere in the country, MSPs have been told.

- CRAIG PATON

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC announced earlier this month it would not be “in the public interest” to prosecute people using such a facility – the first of which is due to open in Glasgow – after years of political wrangling between the Scottish and UK governments over the legality of such a facility.