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Scotsman: News about Drugs Policy
20 troops at Glencorse fail drug tests
THE Army is poised to kick out 20 soldiers who tested positive for drugs at a Lothian barracks.
SNP promise £10m to warn against drugs
SCOTTISH Nationalists today pledged £10 million for drugs education in schools.
Drugs raids reveal rising crack threat
CRACK cocaine has arrived in Scotland's capital on a large scale, police revealed yesterday as they announced details of the "most significant" seizure of the drug in the city.
'We are the foolish victims of a naïve panic over cannabis'
LORD McCLUSKEY asks why we continue to squander scarce resources and police time on investigating and prosecuting cannabis users via our legal system
£40k of cocaine found in car
MORE than £40,000 worth of drugs has been recovered from a car during a police operation in Midlothian.
26 soldiers 'sacked' over drugs
A TOTAL of 26 soldiers from one Scottish battalion failed recent random drugs tests and have been discharged from the army, a spokesman confirmed yesterday.
Three-year-olds to be taught the danger of drugs
THREE-year-old children have become the latest targets in Scotland's battle against illegal drugs. A controversial new scheme will see the anti-drugs message taken into state-funded nurseries for the first time.
'Moral panic' of drug laws isolates users and fuels crime, says report
MOST people who take illegal drugs do not cause any harm to themselves or anyone else, according to a study which calls for the current "crude" ABC classification system be abandoned. The two-year RSA Commission on Illegal Drugs argued that Britain's...
Grandmother vows to keep growing drug
A GRANDMOTHER who cooked with cannabis to ease her depression, aches and pains was yesterday ordered to carry out 250 hours' unpaid work.
Western Isles get sniffer dog
THE First Minister yesterday backed a move to bring in the first sniffer dog based in the Western Isles to combat the rise in drug crime.
Laughing gas sales warning for club and bar owners
NIGHTCLUBS and festival organisers were warned yesterday they faced prosecution if they sold laughing gas to revellers.
Children as young as 10 push drugs
UP TO 100 children, some as young as ten, are arrested in Scotland every year for dealing drugs from cocaine to heroin.
Revealed: scheme to legalise Afghan opium
AFGHANISTAN'S opium crop will be used to create legitimate drugs under secret plans being considered by the government, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
Scandal of child heroin dealers
CHILD dealers of heroin, cocaine and other banned substances are being arrested at the rate of one every four days in the latest sign that Scotland is in the grip of a drugs epidemic.
Drug addict parents to sign children contracts
DRUG addict parents will be asked to sign contracts with treatment agencies in a bid to protect their children, it was announced today.
Vietnam gangs behind cannabis farm boom
VIETNAMESE organised crime is behind a sudden explosion of cannabis cultivation in Scotland in the past year, with more than 40 factories producing £5 million of the drug in the past nine months.
QC in call to end illegal status of cannabis
CONTROVERSIAL advocate Donald Findlay QC yesterday called for the legalisation of cannabis.
Drugs crisis requires 'dedicated minister'
SCOTLAND should have a dedicated Ministry for Drugs and Alcohol to confront head the country's growing addiction crisis, according to a leading academic.
Leafy suburbia: Coming to a middle-class house near you ... the cannabis factory
LUXURY homes converted into cannabis factories producing millions of pounds of drugs have been uncovered in towns and cities across Scotland.
Airport drug smuggler lands four-year jail term
CUSTOMS officers today welcomed a four-year jail term for a drug smuggler found with 129 packs of cocaine inside his body.
Teen charged after drug find
A TEENAGER who threw a bag of cannabis out of his car window as a police patrol followed behind was charged with possessing the drug and also a knuckle-duster.
Drug and alcohol chief calls for end to 30-year cash crisis
THE head of the Capital's alcohol and drugs agency today called for urgent investment to end 30 years of underfunding of support services.
Health chiefs accused of blocking new therapy for heroin addicts
HEALTH chiefs are blocking a revolutionary treatment for heroin addicts because of their "obsession" with the replacement drug methadone, experts claimed last night.
Two held in drugs raid
CANNABIS plants worth £75,000 were seized during a police raid on a city home.
Two held in US drugs inquiry
A MAN and a woman were arrested in Bo'ness today as part of an international investigation led by the US Drugs Enforcement Agency into the supply of materials used to make crystal meth.
Drugs seized by police
DETECTIVES seized cocaine and other drugs worth £15,000 after stopping a car in Old Dalkeith Road on Thursday night.
Miracle drugs cure is tested
A "MIRACLE" cure for drug abusers which involves sending electric pulses to addicts' brains was to be trialled today.
Drug shock-therapy trials 'hit' by lack of Executive cash
TRIALS of a controversial treatment for drug addiction will start today despite the failure of researchers to get funding from the Scottish Executive.
Plan to help drug addicts with shopping vouchers
DRUG addicts receiving treatment could be given shopping vouchers to help them tackle their problem under a new proposal being suggested by an NHS body.
Police warn of growing epidemic of cocaine use in Scotland
COCAINE is more readily available than ever in Scotland, despite record seizures of the drug.
Can drug addicts ever make fit parents?
BY THE very nature of their addiction, they avoid parental responsibilities and so have lost any claim to parental rights, argues Joan McFadden
'Moral panic' threat to children of drug addicts
HUNDREDS of children whose parents are drug addicts face the risk of being taken into care because of a "moral panic" over the issue, Scotland's drug and alcohol tsar has warned.
Cameron 'relaxed' about cannabis for medicinal use
TORY leader David Cameron has said he would be "relaxed" about legalising cannabis for medicinal use if there were evidence of its health benefits.
Six held over cocaine haul
SIX men have been charged with involvement in cocaine dealing following a nine-month operation described as one of the biggest ever in the Lothians.
Addict mums get chance of new life
CITY project helping alcoholic and drug-dependent mothers get clean and care for children.
Cannabis 'crusader' ordered to pay £15,000
A CANNABIS "crusader" who escaped a jail sentence after claiming to grow the drug for medical purposes has been ordered to hand over £15,000 crime profits.
£250k cannabis plants 'seized' in police raids
CANNABIS plants worth £250,000 have allegedly been seized in police raids on two homes.
Spotlight on drink and drugs blight
MORE than 250 experts will meet in Edinburgh today for a major conference on alcohol and drug use in Scotland.
Signs of hope in fight against heroin addiction in Lothians
THE Capital's drugs tsar today suggested that the tide may be starting to turn in the battle against heroin in Edinburgh, as growing numbers move off the drug and on to methadone.
Crystal meth is now Class A
THE sex and dance culture drug crystal meth becomes a Class A drug from today in a bid to prevent it becoming a mainstream epidemic.