“Every so often, a story lands in my lap that reminds me why satire has retired. Scotland’s drug policy keeps beating it to the punch. The latest example is the ongoing debate about the Thistle Centre and its push for…

Oral claims were presented at the Home Affairs Committee this week as part of an inquiry into problem drug use in Scotland and Glasgow’s ‘safer’ drug consumption facility, The Thistle but “it is clear that several key claims… are contradicted…

The Scottish Affairs Committee will question representatives from Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Glasgow City Council tomorrow at 9.45am in the 2nd session of its inquiry into Glasgow’s pilot ‘Safer’ drug consumption…

“Brazen drug dealers” were exposed by the Scottish Sun for pushing heroin & cocaine to desperate addicts outside UK’s 1st fix room, the £2.3million-a-year Thistle in Glasgow. Neighbours warned that some are taking NHS-prescribed smack at a centre next door…

Since the Thistle shooting gallery in Glasgow is a government-endorsed scheme which cannot be adjudged a failure, expect swift dismissal of any criticism, Philip Patrick bemoaned in TCW. Since its opening, Glasgow recorded the biggest spike in drug deaths in…

Glasgow recorded 243 drug deaths in the past 12 months, according to the Scottish government: the biggest spike in the country. One of these deaths occurred outside the Thistle, drug consumption room where it’s estimated that each hit costs the taxpayer £362,…

Despite complaints from neighbouring residents and businesses as well as addiction recovery experts about the Thistle shooting gallery in Glasgow, an Edinburgh drug consumption room could open next year. Make your views known in the 13-week consultation on the proposals…

A man has died outside Glasgow’s drug consumption facility. Police sealed off the entrance to The Thistle on Hunter Street after the death was reported yesterday. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal, the BBC and Scottish Sun disclosed.

Furious locals in UK city say ‘drug consumption room’ has pushed crime ‘through the roof’, the Express reported of Scotland’s Thistle centre where drug users take banned substances under medical supervision. The Sun reported “a year of hell” for residents.…

In a dystopian example of “You couldn’t make it up”, Scottish ministers are considering a change in the law banning smoking in public places to allow drug users to smoke crack cocaine in the controversial taxpayer-funded Thistle shoot-up galleries, the…