Dems oppose Fentanyl restrictions
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.
Democrats 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.
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.
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.) 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…
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.
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.
Parents of kids killed by fentanyl are not happy with the Democrats. “Mass incarcerations” only follow from “mass crimes”, right?
“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.”
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?” Fox News
Big money in drugs.
Me, I maintain we have never actually tried to fight a “war on drugs”. 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.
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?
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Following that theory, we need to repeal any law that punishes carjacking, as it disproportionately incarcerates members of minority communities. Hack recalls a law with enhanced sentencing for driveby shootings was repealed (Maybe in Oakland) because it seemed that only one specific demographic was being charged with committing homicides while shooting from moving vehicles.
That’s why the Portland (OR) Police were forced to shut down the Gang Enforcement Team, they weren’t arresting enough white gang bangers.
Well, that is the voter base of the democrat marxists
So, where is Soros (the spooky dude) getting the money for bribing the politicians from now that USAID is shuttered? The Cartels?
There are likely many more such money laundering slush-funds that have yet to be identified.
Roughly 3% of the population commit 80 some odd % of the crime, but stopping murderous drugs is racists? Got it.
Isn’t there a 1 before the 3?
Or am I thinking of something else?
Can also be read as 3% of the 13%. Same % @80% of crimes. And those are, supposedly, official figures. Hard to tell of late since most “reporters” don’t include “race”. Usually one can go by the name (when listed) and/or a real deep dive on mug shots from the locals (pay walls). Tho I have seen “mug shot” listings showing the picture of an obvious “POC” giving the “race/description” as “dark skinned white…”
Thanks for the clarification!
OK, so at what point are Soros and his son held to account for their crimes against humanity? And the politicians he’s bought and paid for should face the same.
Yeah, it’s interesting how it’s always racism that causes certain groups to be arrested . In the tiny minds of the leftists, there’s no way it could be that ( in no small part due to decades of dem policies) that certain demographics disproportionately engage in criminal activities, and that just maybe, incarceration rates are more related to that fact than imagined racism..
I feel like the direction things are headed, as daylight spills over these horrendous realizations the masses will begin to want a piece of these fuckers.
That’s the real reason the politicians are squirming. We’re seeing what they never wanted us to see and what they were preeeeeetty sure we never would.
It’s not that boy America, in Nigeria over 97% of the people in prison are people of color.
I would not want to become part of that 3%
The incredible shame that represents Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Sheldon Shithead-Sissy, Disco Jerkoff Markey and ChromeDome Cory, a poster boy for Yale.
All three come from areas of low IQ populations and rigidly controlled balloting.
Three Stupids of the Senate.
Slight correction: Booker went to Stanford. I know, a distinction without a difference.
Are you sure it’s the same one? Booker was Yale Law Class of 1997. He and Stacey “Buffalo Butt” Abrams would have been contemporaries.
We might both be right. Booker undergraduate “education” was definitely at Stanford. Tight end on the football team, in fact. Don’t know about law school.
He could have been pretty good as football player. 6’3″ and he still appears to be pretty fit.
The problem can be solved by the republicans legalizing the fentanyl bill and and the demoRats will vote against the bill.
problem solved.
Democrats are bugs,,,
And bugs thrive on chaos – Agent K
If Soros has his tentacles involved in an issue, its designed to sow chaos. The Dems/Soros strategy is sow so much chaos/crime/war/destruction, caused by government policies by the way, that the citizens will give the government “unlimited temporary powers to restore order”. The kicker is the unlimited powers are NOT temporary. COVID was test, and the government was encouraged by how many sheep obeyed without question. Many still abide by the “never not be afraid” mantra. We must always be vigilant, because many of those in power want and lust after MORE POWER.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – Lord Acton
Why not use the drugs used when you put down an animal or pet?
We know that Soros is hell-bent on doing all he can to destroy the USA, and the D-rats? They’re still barreling down the road that led to them getting shellacked in the last election, so why interrupt while they’re cutting their own throats?
We may focus on users, but if so it’s the wrong users. Close down the fancy “rehab” centers like Betty Ford clinic so the rich and famous do some real jail time with the poor and obscure and I think you will see some decline in drug usage. Once those big-time users start ratting out their dealers instead of the small-time users, we should see the drug trade become a little less attractive.
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So should anyone consider the opposition to the drug trade as an indicator of which politicians are in the pocket of the cartels???
Fentanyl SHOULD be used for executions.
Fuck dosages.
Refurb those gas chambers and vaporize a pound or two of street Fentanyl (which contains about 1 gram of pure Fentanyl)
That would be enough to put them on a cloud before the rocket ride to hell.
It would be a fine way to head out for sure. The destination might suck but the journey would be first class,
Corey B. had another Spartacus moment.
I received Fentanyl once…for a kidney stone. Best 15 seconds of sunshine in my body joy ever! That stuff is damn dangerous and needs to be tightly controlled. If you are in terrible pain it is wicked effective. The problem is the poor souls whose bodies really like it. Hence the need for tight control.
If you have some horrible cancer eating you up then bring it I suppose. Again, tightly controlled. It’s scary addictive.