Glasgow drug consumption room could be approved ‘within weeks’

UK's first pilot hailed as life-saving' expected to be approved after it goes before officials on 27 September

The UK's first safer drug consumption room is likely to be approved in Glasgow within weeks, after Scotland's most senior law officer confirmed users would not be prosecuted.

The Scottish government's drugs minister, Elena Whitham, told MSPs on Tuesday afternoon that proposals for the life-saving" pilot scheme would now go before the city's integrated joint board of council and health officials on 27 September, where it is expected to be approved and put out to public consultation.