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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Scotland: Lib Dem drug policy to 'stop treating addiction as crime' 🌿Scotland: Lib Dem drug policy to 'stop treating addiction as crime'
People caught with drugs for personal use would be referred for health treatment rather than sent to jail under proposals unveiled by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
Leader Willie Rennie said Scotland’s current drugs policy “is costly and fails to work for everyone”.
Drugs misuse costs society £3.5 billion a year - amounting to around £900 for every adult in Scotland, he said.
The Lib Dems will call for drug users to be “referred for treatment, education or civil penalties, ending the use of imprisonment”, in a manifesto policy put forward for discussion at its Scottish spring conference this week.
Possession of class A drugs such as ecstasy, LSD, heroin, cocaine and magic mushrooms is punishable by up to seven years in prison.
People caught with class Bs such as amphetamines or cannabis face five years in jail, and possession of class Cs such as tranquillisers, some painkillers and GHB is...
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