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Loopholes in US law which enable fentanyl smuggling should be closed, right? With 74,000 people killed by fentanyl last year, seems like a no-brainer. Unless you have a D after your name, apparently.<\/p>\n
\nDemocrats in Congress are facing backlash for their opposition to bipartisan legislation aimed at closing loopholes in U.S. drug laws taken advantage of by fentanyl traffickers.<\/p>\n
The HALT Fentanyl Act, which would make the temporary Schedule I classification for fentanyl analogs permanent, has been opposed by a George Soros-backed drug policy nonprofit that claims the bill will exacerbate mass incarceration and limit research on these types of opioids.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Think of these drugs as variants on fentanyl. You know how penicillin has multiple variants and names, like polycillin, ampicillin, etc. due to small changes in the compounding ? (Believe in penicillin’s case it is the various additives on the basic compound rings, but I am no chemist or pharmacist.)\u00a0 The variants on fentanyl have a temporary listing on the Schedule 1 narcotics list, but it seems reasonable folks want to basically say that if it’s a fentanyl variant it’s on the prohibited list. No waiting around for a new variant to be added to the list, while in the meanwhile it can be imported. But…<\/p>\n
During comments Tuesday from the Senate floor, as he called for extending the temporary scheduling of fentanyl analogs, Booker claimed that the HALT Act will implement “harsher penalties for drugs” and that he would “not stop working until this body does more than just scheduling.” Other Democratic senators, including Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, have said the HALT Act will impede research on fentanyl analogs and exacerbate mass incarceration among minority communities.<\/p>\n
The arguments put forth by Democrats against this bipartisan bill mirror those of the Soros-backed Drug Policy Alliance, a New-York-based 501(c)3, which declined to provide comment for this story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Parents of kids killed by fentanyl are not happy with the Democrats. “Mass incarcerations” only follow from “mass crimes”, right?<\/p>\n
“Continuing resolutions to accommodate the scheduling aspect of fentanyl analogs is simply a method of kicking the can further down the road,” Jaime Puerta, who lost his son, Daniel, in 2020 to a fentanyl overdose, wrote in a letter to Booker on Wednesday and obtained by Fox News Digital. “Fentanyl and its analogs have been the leading cause of overdose deaths in the United States, with synthetic opioids accounting for over 74,000 fatalities in 2023 alone. Your reluctance to support the HALT Fentanyl Act disregards the escalating death toll and the devastating impact on families and communities nationwide.”<\/p>\n
Another parent who lost their child to fentanyl in 2014, Lauri Badura, wrote in a separate letter to the top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that if they cannot pass the HALT Act, “how can the public hold out hope Congress will fix the larger problem of illicit fentanyl crossing our borders every single day?”\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Big money in drugs.<\/p>\n
Me, I maintain we have never actually tried to fight a “war on drugs”.\u00a0 We focus mostly on users, not on dealers, we don’t assess severe penalties on countries that abet the trade, we barely prosecute dealers and do little to stop the cartels. A real war on drugs would have been far different from what we have actually done.<\/p>\n
But I do have to ask – if fentanyl is so darned lethal – why isn’t it used for executions? Would seem a single massive hit would do everything needed, and we literally confiscate tons of it every year. Even if we made smugglers and dealers eat their product (something a REAL war on drugs would do) there’s be lots left over for Death Row, wouldn’t there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"