Swinney’s aim to decriminalise all drugs is “appalling ignorance”

John Swinney’s call to decriminalise all drugs was condemned in the Herald as “appalling ignorance” and “dangerously stupid” in the Scotsman – he ignored gateway drugs in Scotland’s most deprived communities and cannabis harms such as permanent neurological damage, all amid Scotland’s record drug deaths and the SNP’s failure to invest in effective rehabilitation rather than harm-reduction bandaids. MSP Katy Clark advocates a way ahead.