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Drugs policy

Big drop in size of drug fines FINES handed out to drug users convicted at Edinburgh Sheriff Court have dropped by about a third over the past three years, new figures reveal.

Heroin and cocaine users face smaller fines in Capital court Policy under attack for 'sending out the wrong message'

'Skunk seven times as harmful' as solid hash POWERFUL "skunk" cannabis is seven times more likely to trigger psychotic illnesses, such as schizophrenia, than traditional solid hash. The new research findings, published yesterday, lend support to claims that the drug is in a class of

On the spot £40 fines for cannabis users ON THE spot fines of £40 could be handed out to people caught with small amounts of cannabis, a Scottish Government report said today.

Target of 21 days set to help drug addicts

More advisers resign as drug row escalates

Dangers of cannabis attested to by minister

Sacked scientist David Nutt considers setting up breakaway group

Now sacked adviser wins backing of government's science chief

Prime minister backs sacking of David Nutt over drug comments

Scientists demand government talks over drug advice

Two more drug experts quit in row over sacked professor

Clarke criticises Brown as drugs adviser row escalates

Risky 'party highs' for sale in city

Sacked: drugs tsar who said LSD was safer than alcohol

Get tough on ketamine use, MPs warned

Life on cannabis has been far from poetry

City clubs ban 'legal highs'

Police bust 11 drugs farms in crackdown

Residential care for drug addicts at 'astonishing' all-time low

Leap of faith in addicts makes a huge difference

Catherine Salmond: Shooting galleries offer a fix for the city's heroin problem

Call for addicts to receive heroin

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