Zero Tolerance isn’t working at the Arches or anywhere
A 39-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, having reportedly taken 4 pills, believed to be ecstasy, while in the queue at the Arches […]
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Testing times for Scotland’s pill takers
Another 2 weekends have came and went since pill-related deaths were in the news. At the time, one of the Flowers wrote this piece, arguing for the urgent introduction of […]
Our approach to pills is unsafe
On Saturday , a woman died after a night out at the Arches in Glasgow. In separate incidents, 4 other clubbers were taken to hospital as a result of the […]
Yes We Cannabis: Reigniting Scotland’s drugs debate
Nearly 50 years ago, a Government commissioned report concluded that the time had come to draw a distinction between the use of cannabis and the use of some other illegal […]
Methadone isn’t the problem or the only solution
The latest figures for drug related deaths in Scotland make for grim reading. In 2012, 581 people died from taking drugs (other than alcohol and tobacco). Staggeringly, the most deadly […]
Calling Time on Dodgy Pills
We’ve now had no less than seven deaths from dodgy pills in Scotland over the last few weeks, following a similar spate of fatalities in Northern Ireland. This weekend, thousands […]
A Thousand Flowers 