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Drug deaths: ‘Scotland should decriminalise and dare Westminster to block it’

As a Scot leading drug policy reform in the US, Michael Collins jokes that when he first started pushing for decriminalisation he found himself thrown out of offices and unable to get Washington's big beasts to return his calls.
By Derek Healey
January 15 2021, 12.01am Updated: January 15 2021, 11.56am
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