Meconic

"They are on the outbuilding, a humdrum red-brick structure...they look around for security. Nothing. All the cameras look away from them. They look at each other in a kind of childlike wonderment. They are five junkies from Leith, locked inside a compound with the biggest amount of pure morphine on these islands"

The high security compound of MacFarlan Smith manufacturers to HMG of high quality opiate alkaloids. Its barbed wire, walls and dogs were, however no match for Mark Renton and his fellow radges armed with two planks and a rattling desperation to score.