Dorothy Bain, the Lord Advocate, said if such a facility was opened she would advise police it would "not be in the public interest" to prosecute individuals for possession.
The Scottish Government and public health campaigners have long called for a trial of safe consumption rooms to help lower the country's shameful number of deaths from drugs.In a statement, Bain said: “On the basis of the information I have been provided, I would be prepared to publish a prosecution policy that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute drug users for simple possession offences committed within a pilot safer drugs consumption facility.
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