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Some cannabis users caught by police may not be prosecuted and will receive an on-the-spot recorded warning instead.
Police Scotland will introduce the system in January to deal with low-level crimes.
At the moment, such crimes are normally reported by police to prosecutors and do not end up in court.
The majority of those caught with cannabis, and perpetrators of serious crime, would be dealt with as before.
The recorded police warning is a revision of the formal adult warning scheme and would be issued by individual officers.
Officers will determine if a warning is appropriate, or if another course of action such as a fixed-penalty notice should be issued.
Ch Supt Brian McInulty said the idea behind the scheme was to speed up the justice process by dealing with crimes that were unlikely to go to court.
But one campaigner, Prof Neil McKeganey, founder of the Centre for Drug...
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