Can lessons be learned from Portugal, which relaxed its drugs laws more than 20 years ago?

Scotland has the highest drugs death rate in Europe, with narcotics claiming more than 100 lives on average every month.

The Scottish government is proposing to decriminalise the possession of drugs for personal use to “help and support people rather than criminalise and stigmatise them”.

But the UK government, which controls drugs policy, has rejected the plan as dangerous and says it has no intention of giving the Scottish Parliament the power to enact the new policy.