Addicts slumped in doorways, discarded needles and more dealers: life beside SNP’s shooting gallery

When he visited with great fanfare in January, First Minister John Swinney proclaimed the UK’s 1st ‘safer’ drugs consumption room, The Thistle, as a ‘significant step forward’ in tackling Scotland’s appalling record of drugs harm and deaths. But residents and businesses talk of a ‘living hell’ and are threatening to quit the area, Mail Online reported.