South Africa has a new law to govern the expropriation (or compulsory acquisition) of private property by government for ...

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The UK's first legal drug consumption room opens in Glasgow today, following a decade-long legal battle between the city's council and Westminster. The initiative "marks a significant, if ...

recently released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), provides a great deal of evidence to support that contention. According to the report South Africa is not only a major ...

The UK’s first drug consumption room will open in Scotland tomorrow, allowing users to take class A drugs without prosecution. The Thistle in the eastern Calton district has been modelled on 100 ...

Welcome to the Thistle - the UK's first and only drug consumption room. After nearly a decade of deadlock and wrangling over drug laws the centre is finally ready to open. On Monday it will ...

The new drugs consumption room in the Calton area of Glasgow is called The Thistle [BBC] ...