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HEROIN, cocaine and ecstasy users should face police warnings instead of prison if found with small amounts of drugs for their personal use, the Scottish LibDems will argue this week.
The party will use its Spring conference to advocate decriminalising drug use - as opposed to drug dealing - in a fundamental reform of how addiction is dealt with by the authorities.
Leader Willie Rennie will ask delegates to make treating drug use a health and social issue rather than a criminal one a key manifesto pledge for May’s Holyrood election.
Writing in today’s Sunday Herald, he says: “We’re not winning the so-called war on drugs and we have to consider the alternatives. We do not believe vulnerable people struggling with addiction should be imprisoned simply for possessing drugs for personal use.”
Possession of a Class A drug like heroin is currently punishable by up to seven years in jail....
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