Dr James Nicholls, CEO of the Transform Drug Policy FoundationThe Government’s response to the Scottish Affairs Committee report is deeply disappointing.
This was one of the most thorough investigations into drug-related harms for years, and it has been waved away as if it were a series of uninformed tweets.The committee’s recommendations were considered and evidence-based.
They reflected a growing global expert consensus that drug problems are a health issue, and that the criminalisation of people who use drugs is ineffective and iniquitous.The dismissive response makes the Government seem both high-handed and paralysed by its ancient commitment to the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act.
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