The Home Affairs Committee has published a report recommending a pilot in Glasgow is supported by Westminster.

Drugs law must be reformed, MPs have concluded as they recommended greater testing at festivals as well as the use of safe spaces across the UK for users to take substances under medical supervision.

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    Never thought I would see such a reasonable, if not overdue, approach from the dinosaurs running the UK.

    I’m an idiot and it appears preposterous that the war on drugs has held its grip for so long. The larger implications of illegal drug use is far reaching and the illegality of them does very little to curb their use and the other crimes that are par for the cause in the industry.

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      1 year ago

      Not to be too dour, but this isn’t the first committee to suggest such reasonableness. But Sunak et al aren’t going to allow it, despite it causing them literally nothing