Author: Karin Goodwin in The Ferret investigative journal
With its coarse leaves, jaggy spikes and purple blooms – the thistle is known as Scotland’s national flower. Now it is also the name of the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility, opening in Glasgow’s east-end on Monday, 13 January.
Like its jaggy botanical namesake this drug injection centre – almost a decade in the planning – has been a thorny issue. It’s considered bold and beautiful by many though met with more ambivalence by others.